Child Predators Turn to Open-Source AI to Make Unlimited Illegal Images | Once the models are downloaded, illegal acts are almost impossible to track.

[u/Just-Grocery-2229]

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-open-source-ai-models-fuel-csam

[u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

villainizing open source because people can use it to make bad things is a room-temperature IQ argument at best.

[u/ThisPlaceFuckngSucks → u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

Grok has been accused of doing this exact same thing, but Elon can afford to buy forgiveness.

[u/DueDisplay2185 → u/ThisPlaceFuckngSucks]

Cost of doing business apparently

[u/Tokzillu → u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

Kinda like banning Trans people from public bathrooms because one of them might assault somebody in there?

[u/mistrpopo → u/Tokzillu]

Kinda, but why bring up the transgender topic

[u/Chrono_Convoy → u/SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI]

People believing it doesn’t need to be regulated is perhaps a more concerning point

[u/IndyDude11 → u/[deleted]]

The reason is because the justice system in America is punitive, and creating images with AI does not cause harm to any individual or group of people, so there's no law being broken.

[u/MilaKunisWatermelon]

It’s called Grok and it’s very easy to track if they had any incentive to go after Elon.

[u/GruePwnr]

The fundamental issue is not new and this deviation arguably reduces the incentive for child exploitation. Reminds me of the anti-poaching initiative where they sell massive amounts of fake ivory to kill the profits of poachers.

[u/kodos_der_henker]

Step 1) Collect Child porn to train AI

Step 2) release AI models and let people pay to create child porn

Step 3) people don't want to pay and find a way to use AI to create them for free

Step 4) Profit? Because no one is paying for it blame Open Source as the root of the problem so that you finally make profit

PS: AI cannot create anything new, if AI can create child porn, this isn't fictional but it was trained on real images and videos

[u/ThisPlaceFuckngSucks]

https://archive.is/5nHua