The model knows what kids looks like and it knows what porn looks like. It is now more complex than the thought experiment, “the Chinese Room” because it can interpolate between two things it knows rather than basic request and response.

Were they also trained on the vast quantity of media of gymnasts made out of pasta for them to be able to create videos of that?

One of the main points of GenAI is the ability to smush multiple concepts together. There are plenty of training data of children that are in swimwear, or just literally naked that has nothing to do with CP, and there's boatloads naked adults and of course, porn, it can successfully combine them together even if there was no actual CP in there whatsoever.

And use of the model drives demand for it, just like purchasing real CSAM. Even if the subject is now 50 years old, it incentivizes abusers to make new material from people that are currently underage.

What? Even if you're right that CSAM was included in training data (and that's highly debated), it would absolutely have been inadvertent and due to the Internet dragnet style of training. I don't know where you get the idea that AI companies would ask for more CSAM and drive up demand to "improve" their model.

That’s the thing… it was derived from real CP.