A question I don't have an answer to.

This is the unfortunate and altogether wrong (morally, it's not incorrect) truth of the corporate structure. If you can't point to an ROI they don't want to spend money on it. The tech world has gone to great collective lengths to push the value of prevention and best practices even if they take a bit of time and money, and I really wish they'd take up that same passion for this kind of shit.

I also really wish the public would treat these companies as the conspirators they are too, but I know they won't. They never have.

The gross truth is there's a not-inconsequential number of pedophiles in the tech world compared to other industries. It's the kind of world where you're not likely to stumble into it online unless you're well versed in the technology we all collectively call "the internet". Speaking personally I've encountered it myself multiple times, technologically literate people who think they can evade or even worse, relate to others in that industry. Might be an unpopular opinion but I'm in that industry too, I'm not talking about just your industry, reader.

Yup. Before Discord it was Skype. Before Skype it was AIM. It’s not a problem with Discord specifically. It’s that predators will always seek out prey. When kids flock to a service like Discord it means predators do too.

You are forgetting the little detail that AI's output is based on what has been put in it. If a model can output something like that, it's likely because real CSAM has been fed into it. It's not sprouting from the aether.