US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges - eviltoast

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/15863526

Steven Anderegg allegedly used the Stable Diffusion AI model to generate photos; if convicted, he could face up to 70 years in prison

  • bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    It’s open source code that someone ran on their own computer, it’s not like he used paid OpenAI credits to generate the image.

    It also would set a bad precedent - it would be like charging Solomons & Fryhle because someone used their (absolutely ubiquitous) organic chemistry textbook to create methamphetamine