AI and child sexual abuse, hot take

as a victim of child sexual abuse it honestly pisses me off when i hear people describe ai generated images as "child sexual abuse material"

like, no, that's not what it is. it can very obviously still be Bad, of course, but we still need to be respecting the fact that it is Different. do people not see how it is trivializing actual rape and abuse by comparing it to a made-up image a computer generated out of nothing? how every time i have to talk about Actual Honest To Goodness Real Life Pictures Of A Real Life Child Having Sex Crimes Done To Them In Real Life as a concept i have to add even more fucking qualifiers to lest people think i'm talking about drawings or deepfakes

it's just fucking exhausting

just PTSD ranting at this point. child sexual abuse, objectification, suicide mention

oh, and everyone acts like "CSAM" is the only thing that matters because nobody wants to admit that we don't do shit to actually prevent sexual abuse and we don't do shit to help the victims of it afterwards either. you can pretend that you're helping by going crazy about some fucking jpegs; when in reality kids and teens are still getting abused even if all the cameras are turned off. meanwhile you harass victims until they kill themselves for not acting how you want them to, and then the perpetrator gets elected fucking President or whatever.

that's the world we're in! everyone ignores the actual foundational problems, and instead they pretend to "help" in a way that either does nothing or makes things worse after the fact because they don't want to admit that they ignored the problem on purpose at the start.

in a way, it's not much different to us than how the pedos that jerked off to us a decade ago treated us. all you people see are the photos; you ignore the person who's life was ruined by them.

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