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Why would Elon block a bill banning AI-generated child porn?
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this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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To be fair, what's the point of the bill? Child porn is already illegal. It's like the bills banning non-citizens from voting.
While they're at it, why not ban murder, theft, and drunk driving?
Historically, bills like this that appear to be so obviously "good" are often traps that contain unrelated, nefarious shit. Like hiding a ban on abortion inside a bill that's supposed to be about banning something everyone hates.
I'm highly skeptical of the bill but at the same time I wouldn't put it past Elon to be against it for all the wrong reasons 🤷
I read the bill and there are explicit provisions about prohibiting websites from allowing users to create nudified images without technical skill. I don't know existing laws but they might not have put the onus on the company/website and just on the users. This is the full bill, it's a single page: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/1606/versions/latest/
EDIT: Should point out that the bill is for any unwanted AI Generated nudes of identifiable people, not just minors.
Exactly. It's all about nudification of anyone using AI tools. Not explicitly about children.
Yes, clarified my previous comment to include that fact since it was misleading based on the screenshot. Thanks.
They already have.
But this closes the hole that the images are of people who dont exist so they are ageless. Idk of anyone has challenged it with that strategy but I can see the supreme cunts ruling that since they are not real people its not CSM. I haven't read the bill but I hope this is the intention.
In your example it'd be CSM, just not CSAM I guess, technically. I think this is more about undressing real people though
I think one of the best arguments to ban AI child porn is because the models have to be trained on something, and that something would be of real children and therefore not a 'victimless' crime in that sense.
Seems fair. Is that really how the training works though? You'd hope they'd have a first-level filtering process that flags things before they get fed into the model but who knows.
The law in question is a Minnesota State Law, not a federal one. Trump isn't involved. Pretty sure that Walz is who would be signing it into law.
Whatever you found in Congress is concerning, though.
Oh shit you're right. The legislation I was referencing apparently passed a year ago. I guess if my concern was legit it would have manifested already.