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your child pornography/child sexual abuse material. These stick figures are definitely underage in someone's imagination.
What is the penalty?
This isn't any different than busting someone for selling fake drugs, which is an actual crime. Even if the bodies are AI generated, they're still attaching the faces of real girls to them and then distributing them amongst their peer group. The fact that you want to make your stand on this specific situation says a lot about you.
Seems like vacuous bullshit. At least there, a fraud is technically committed.
A real face is there in someone's imagination. And it's distributed to you. Are you going to excuse lesser skill?
So, again, what's the penalty?
The stand against sensational irrationality is always a good cause.
How so? Is there not fraud committed in this case as well?
We're not talking about someone's imagination or stick figures, but an actual digital image depicting a nude human body with the faces of real children. What skill are you referring to and how is this "skill level" relevant to the argument?
Is that what you're doing? Your comments are devoid of reasoning, logic, or nuance and just relies on a cartoon picture to do all the talking all while you claim everyone who disagrees with you is "showing a lack of thought or intelligence" and being irrational. You've done the equivalent of walking into a crowded room, farting, and walking away thinking "heh, heh, I showed those morons."
Was there a transaction?
That is "an actual digital image depicting a nude human body with the faces of real children". Both digital images, both depictions of nude human bodies with faces, both faces of real children as far as some viewer is concerned. Where's your objective legal standard?
You're just going to let people commit purported crimes with impunity due to weaker skill in synthesizing the images they're sharing? Seems unjust.
That's you. You lack an argument to draw a valid legal distinction & are just riding sensationalism. You were given a counterexample & have yet to adequately address it. It's bankrupt.
Its literally none of those things apart from being digital. The fact that you have to dance around including the word "imagination" for your scenario to be even remotely equivalent gives away how weak your argument is.
Good one
Oh, so now it's about legality and not "vacuous bullshit" or making a "stand against vapid irrationality?" The law isn't rigid and immutable. It changes all the time. There weren't any laws about drunk driving in 1810 either, so having those today must be irrational and lacking intelligence, right? Do you think any of those girls think this is sensationalism? Do you think this is isolated to this one group of kids in this one school?
I've addressed your counterexample (BTW thanks for the wiki link. You must not be aware that this term is common knowledge) in literally every single comment, but perhaps your reading comprehension skills are a bit vacuous.
I don't get it. Are you saying the victim's age is imaginary? Or are you lashing out because you live in fear that you'll go prison if anyone ever opens your phone?
There's absolutely a legal distinction between a drawing or other depiction versus a deepfake based on a person's likeness.