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>The major problem with CP is that the most cost-effective way of producing it is abusing children.

I'm not sure that's completely true. Despite the surprisingly widespread notion that generative AI can only strictly reproduce things it's been trained on, it can still deductively create novel things based on that data. For example, image generation models are trained on a wide variety of adult human figures. Children are just... kind of a subset of what makes an adult, so via some clever prompting, it should be possible to steer a model to generate CP. It should then be possible to generate synthetic data to better tag, fine-tune, train a new model, or whatever.

The problem with this is a person needs to steer that ship -- who's going to do it? Even if it has the potential to prevent abuse, it's something that's so universally unacceptable that people generally don't want to touch the topic. There are law enforcement officers whose job it is to manually search for and assess CP on the web, but given the underlying philosophy of law enforcement, I'm sure most of them would not approve of the idea of generating CP, even if it's synthetic. So... the ideal pick would be an actual (hopefully non-offending) pedophile, but who wants to be known as an employer of pedophiles?

There are supposedly communities of pedophiles who wish to stay non-offending, and I imagine it'll be an "outsider" group that tries this, if at all.