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by laaman02 162 days ago
Even if you can’t reliably control it, if you make a tool that generates CSAM you’ve made a CSAM generator. You have a moral responsibility to either make your tool unavailable, or figure out how to control it.
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I'm not sure I agree with this specific reasoning. Consider this, any given image viewer can display CSAM. Is it a CSAM viewer? Do you have a moral responsibility to make it refuse to display CSAM? We can extend it to anything from graphics APIs, to data storage, etc.

There's a line we have to define that I don't think really exists yet, nor is it supported by our current mental frameworks. To that end, I think it's just more sensible to simply forbid it in this context without attempting to ground it. I don't think there's any reason to rationalize it at all.

nope. anyone who wants to can create CSAM in MS Paint (or any quality of image editor). it's in no way difficult to do.

you going to ban all artsy software ever because a bad actor has or can use it to do bad actor things?