Creating criminal content with AI is a growing problem for law enforcement.

Police in 20 countries have taken down a network that distributed images of child sexual abuse entirely generated by artificial intelligence.

The operation – which spanned European countries including the United Kingdom as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand – is “one of the first cases” involving AI-generated images of child sexual abuse material, Europe’s law enforcement agency Europol, which supported the action, said in a press release.

Danish authorities led an operation, which resulted in 25 arrests, 33 house searches and 173 devices being seized.

  • mindbleach
    11·
    2 days ago

    How can anyone believe these models have a big pile of hyper-illegal go-to-jail images, labeled specifically for word-to-image training?

    This technology combines concepts. That’s why it’s a big fucking deal. Generating a thousand images of Darth Shrektopus riding a horse on the moon does not imply a single example of exactly that. The model knows what children are - the model knows what pornography is. It can satisfy those unrelated concepts, simultaneously.

      • mindbleach
        2·
        2 days ago

        The best punchline would be if you manually Photoshopped this together circa 2012.

        And the only clear thing to suggest it’s not that, is the middle left tentacle.

    • Q*Bert Reynolds
      32·
      2 days ago

      Because that’s exactly what happens. The vast majority of AI porn isn’t coming from unmodified models. People use LoRAs and their massive porn collections to retrain and fine tune models to generate their exact fetish. Pedos are definitely doing that too.