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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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Government wanting to blame tools instead of what people do with the tools.
Next we should make Milwaukee stop selling saw zaws because they cut down flock cameras, or hammers because they can beat people in the head.
I'm not sure I'm seeing the legitimate use case of turning pictures of children into nude pictures of children.
The application has normal non fucked up things it's used for. It's not a "make naked kids app". It's like going after Photoshop.
Damn near anything can be used to do something illegal. It's the same overbearing government control that has been playing big brother to 3D printers. Go after the person doing something illegal instead of screwing with everyone and everything else.
No, no, hard disagree. First go after the people making the csam generator and refusing to countenance censoring it from that. No excuses. No comparing csam to free speech or 3D printing.
You just scraped right over me comparing it to Photoshop.
You're only like this because Musk is a douchebag. Take him out of the equation. It's a photo editor. There's tons of them. It's idiotic to go after a program or anything just because it can be used by bad people. Go after the people.
It's the same shit as tor or vpns or Linux or 3d printers or GrapheneOS. "oh. Think of the children. Think of the terrorists. Think of the violence". It's all the same bullshit.
What's the next stop down after going after a photo editor? I guess the only way to make sure they aren't used for csam is to only have photo editors that are used over the cloud so all images can be scanned and interpreted.
And I'll skip right over you comparing it to scissors and paper too.
No, none of them generate csam.
I'm not supporting banning Photoshop or tor, or even ai based image manipulation - that one was your straw man.
I'm only going after a company if their software generates csam. Simple. If they tell me it can't be done, I tell them they need to either keep working until it can, or make some other software.
Don't tell me an ai can't recognise csam because recognition is a neural network's strong suit. If you can instruct it to make it, you build it to reject prompts that involve nudity and minors and warn users that if they try again it'll inform on them to the FBI and Interpol. If that means that the companies won't risk generative being used on adult porn, I really don't care.
Musk wants this csam feature for himself and his porn-generating customers. And I don't care that it's Musk. I'd go for Microsoft and Google and Anthropic and anyone else, and I wouldn't be sorry if the whole LLM industry went bust. The biggest, most unsustainable financial bubble ever is going to burst and take the economy with it anyway. It was only ever a redundancy machine anyway, and I won't miss it.
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I think you mean egg corn
Duuuude, it's like... they saw... all
Let's ban knives because people use them to kill!