He allegedly used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generative AI model, to create “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors,” prosecutors said.
Y’all know this tech combines concepts, right? Being able to combine “Shrek” and “unicycle” does not require prior art for Shrek riding a unicycle. It judges whether an image satisfies the concepts of Shrek and unicycle, and adjusts it to satisfy both constraints. Eventually you get a fat green ogre on half a bicycle.
The database definitely contains children. The database definitely contains pornography. The network does not have moral opinions about why those two goals cannot be satisfied simultaneously.
Approximately zero images, out of a bajillion.
Y’all know this tech combines concepts, right? Being able to combine “Shrek” and “unicycle” does not require prior art for Shrek riding a unicycle. It judges whether an image satisfies the concepts of Shrek and unicycle, and adjusts it to satisfy both constraints. Eventually you get a fat green ogre on half a bicycle.
The database definitely contains children. The database definitely contains pornography. The network does not have moral opinions about why those two goals cannot be satisfied simultaneously.