# AI pornography that is otherwise illegal **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 5, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-pornography-that-is-otherwise-illegal/1027400 "2026-02-05T19:50:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-pornography-that-is-otherwise-illegal/1027400/61 "2026-02-06T21:10:09Z")
I guess. It’s a big world so I’m sure someone is. Not sure if it’s a significant number purely (or primarily) in it for capitalism. Actually, I revise that. I’m thinking of someone actively engaged in the act with a minor. I could easily see a shitty exploitive parent photographing their kid for money and having them perform for the camera or a similar circumstance. Well, that’s more than I wanted to think about that today ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-pornography-that-is-otherwise-illegal/1027400/62 "2026-02-06T21:30:06Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > > [@puzzlegal](#): > > > > I’m not sure that’s true. I think there’s are people who are sexually oriented towards children, and like to look at sexual images of children for all the same reasons that other people look at sexual images of adults. > > Right. I’m saying you have producers, people who are actively abusing children and consumers, people who enjoy the material but maybe wouldn’t commit the actual abuse. The CSAM the consumers are looking at is a side product of the producers’ abuse but the producers would largely be abusing anyway. It’s like if I was really into digging holes and offered the excavated dirt. If I get something extra for the dirt then great but I’m going to dig holes regardless. > > AI generated CSAM adds to the content available to the consumers but I’m skeptical that it would lower the amount that producers are creating. I’ll admit this is just my perspective and I don’t have training, etc in the field And I’m saying that i think you are wrong about the motives of the producers, at least some of the time. That guy who took my MIL back home? He wanted to photograph her naked, and probably to look at the names photos. He didn’t want to hurt her or hold power over her. Because if that’s what he’d wanted, he would have done it. And he chose not to. And my friend who found her husband was selling photos of kids? She thought he was primarily in it for the money. I think that if you could produce the same materials without hurting children, a lot of the current buyers of the material would _prefer_ that and there would be less “real” CSAM material produced. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-pornography-that-is-otherwise-illegal/1027400/63 "2026-02-06T21:54:26Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > That guy who took my MIL back home? He wanted to photograph her naked, and probably to look at the names photos Mind you, I assume this would have been decades before the internet existed. Options were a lot different then. I have no interest in seeing CSAM material but, AI not withstanding, if I was I’m sure it would be far easier and safer to find it online than to lure children into my basement. I’d never be in the production side. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-pornography-that-is-otherwise-illegal/1027400/64 "2026-02-06T22:11:31Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Mind you, I assume this would have been decades before the internet existed. Options were a lot different then. Oh yes, of course. That would have been in the 1940s, or maybe the 1930s. Copies of photos cost real money. But my point is that i think a lot of the motive to create CSAM materials is actually sex, not power. (And profit, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-pornography-that-is-otherwise-illegal/1027400/65 "2026-02-17T15:38:51Z")
Interesting article. > **[How deepfakes and e-rapes became children’s new normal](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-02-16-how-deepfakes-and-erapes-became-childrens-new-normal/)** > > Grok’s recent frenzied creation and sharing of deepfake pornography through X’s public platform confirmed what activists have known for years. The technology to digitally undress women and children an… ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-pornography-that-is-otherwise-illegal/1027400/66 "2026-09-08T22:07:38Z")
and Meta: > **[TTP - Meta Ran Hundreds of Paid Ads with Child Sexual Abuse Imagery](https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/meta-ran-hundreds-of-paid-ads-with-child-sexual-abuse-imagery)** > > TTP has found more than 300 ads with child sexual abuse material that ran on Facebook and Instagram. Some include images of real children. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-pornography-that-is-otherwise-illegal/1027400.md?page=3)