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by elorant 1261 days ago
It’s not awful because it has been addressed before. Sure, if you can create child porn at your demand there’s no reason to go look for the real thing, at least in theory.

There are a couple of problems though. How would the model be trained? It has to process child faces. This is a huge red flag by itself. The second problem is that it might get more people addicted to child porn. If it becomes so easy to access who can tell how many more will find it attractive. And then you’ll end up with a much bigger problem than the one you had when started.
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ramblerman 1261 days ago
> The second problem is that it might get more people addicted to child porn

Would you similarly argue gay porn is likely to make more people gay?

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archon1410 1261 days ago
I think many people would agree to that sentiment. Anecdotally, the number of people who identify as gay or bisexual and/or are interested in same-sex sex has only increased tremendously as the amount of gay pornography has increased.

Arguably much of it only due to destigmatisation and legislation. But even then it only seems obvious that many people who would otherwise have lived "straight lives" have been "introduced" to homosexuality due to gay porn, as the number of "this makes me question my sexuality" comments under various gay-erotic content show.

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elorant 1261 days ago
Not gay per se, more like bisexuals.
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jstarfish 1260 days ago
> The second problem is that it might get more people addicted to child porn.

Nah, the second problem is escalation.

The fear is that once you've burned out on fakes, you start looking for the real stuff (or physical encounters) to get your dopamine fix.

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luckylion 1261 days ago
> If it becomes so easy to access who can tell how many more will find it attractive.

The same argument is regularly brought up around drugs. Modifying chemical formulas brings out stuff like 1P-LSD, which is a functional analogue of LSD, but has been legal in lots of countries for years because it wasn't covered by the existing laws. With that argument, you'd expect everyone and their aunt to be tripping, but we didn't. There's a subculture that is interested in psychotropic drugs, but it's small, and availability doesn't increase it.

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sh4rks 1261 days ago
Exactly. As morbid as it is, people might eventually get bored of the fake stuff and might crave (or even fetishize) the "real" stuff.
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