A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers.
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers.
Technically speaking there is no such thing as child porn - it’s abuse material i.e. evidence of a crime. However, there has been no crime when the content is AI generated so it would be categorized as simulated abuse material.
Child porn as a term shouldn’t really be used at all. It downplays what said content actually is. It’s similar to calling female genital mutilation a “female circumcison”.
Us federal law explicitly uses and defines the term “child pornography” in 18 us 2251-2256.
From justic.gov:
Section 2256 of Title 18, United States Code, defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age). Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict an identifiable, actual minor.
So no on all accounts. Child pornography is an actually legal term, and ai generation does not get around it if it depicts a real, existant person.
or male genital mutilation a “circumcision”
No. Circumcision is the actual name of the medical procedure in question.
This is a false comparison. Circumcision has actual medical uses (e.g. phymosis, cancer, balanitis). FGM does not.
let’s go ahead and remove feet at birth too, might develop gout.
…not everyone gets circumcised at birth. I got circumcised in my 30s due to phymosis. No one undergoes FGM at any age for any medical reason. Conflating the two is deeply unhelpful to both the stigma around medical circumcision and to protect people from the brutality of FGM. Not every country is America.
*FGM
Woops! Ty!
fair, but most circumsized men were mutilated at birth for no medical reasons
Not true. The only study I could find has it at 50-50 with Muslim countries, Israel and the US being clear outliers. This is US-centric thinking.
This is, linguistically, an unwinnable fight, imo. People understand what “porn” is(/is meant to be), and ‘child’ is just a descriptor. People are never naturally going to start saying “abuse material” instead of “porn” in instances like these.
We can’t even get people to consistently say STI instead of STD after all this time. You’ve got to pick your battles, lol.