The decision could set a precedent for future monitoring of people convicted of indecent image offences

A sex offender convicted of making more than 1,000 indecent images of children has been banned from using any “AI creating tools” for the next five years in the first known case of its kind.

Anthony Dover, 48, was ordered by a UK court “not to use, visit or access” artificial intelligence generation tools without the prior permission of police as a condition of a sexual harm prevention order imposed in February.

The ban prohibits him from using tools such as text-to-image generators, which can make lifelike pictures based on a written command, and “nudifying” websites used to make explicit “deepfakes”.

Dover, who was given a community order and £200 fine, has also been explicitly ordered not to use Stable Diffusion software, which has reportedly been exploited by paedophiles to create hyper-realistic child sexual abuse material, according to records from a sentencing hearing at Poole magistrates court.

  • SonnyVabitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    I was listening to a podcast on moral philosophy (wouldn’t you wanna be as cool as me??), and one suggestion that’s stuck with me was the morality of, trigger warning,

    spoiler

    ‘life like child sex robots’.

    As in, would we as a society want to permit such things, knowing that they could potentially save humans from actual harm if they offer an outlet that scratches an itch? On the other hand, would they bring forth more harmful desires in a greater number of potential perpetrators, leading to even more harm?

    Anyway, I’m glad it’s not my job to contemplate such disturbing topics.

    • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Permit is a difficult thing. There is always someone willing to make such things profit. Yay, capitalism!I

      I have no idea where they come from but I’ve dove deep enough into the darker web to know people possess such items. I have no doubt that anyone willing to dive in pursuit of such an item would have little problem in finding one.

      I recall reading an article about the creators of the real doll and how they received such requests but refused them. They also claimed they had requests for animals which they didn’t think were serious and also refuse.

      I’m sure those exist as well and I would rather those exist than for people to harm real animals.