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by concordDance 918 days ago
The production and sale of CSAM and meth harms people, mere possession and consumption harms only the user.
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I don't think the analogy to generative models holds. The possession and consumption of meth and CSAM _drive_ production of meth and CSAM; it's a supply and demand market. So simply possessing it harms others as well.

A generative model is different. You can produce as much content with it as you want, hallucinated out of thin air. The production of said content doesn't have externalities, other than electricity usage, if the content isn't distributed.

> The possession and consumption of meth and CSAM _drive_ production of meth and CSAM

This is not true, its the buying of it that drives production. If you make your own meth or pirate CSAM then you would be harming only yourself.