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The primary impediment to combating child sexual abuse material is the scarcity of law enforcement agents relative to the scale of offenders.[0] Law enforcement
by ipnon 6y ago
The primary impediment to combating child sexual abuse material is the scarcity of law enforcement agents relative to the scale of offenders.[0] Law enforcement agencies are already at the limit of how many offenders they can prosecute because offenders are primarily detected by agents who are posing as offenders or by agents who are posing as victims.
The solution proposed by the researchers in the referenced documentary is to create AI agents that can automate the work of posing as offenders or posing as victims. This solves the scaling problem of the law enforcement agencies.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcCj1zNpKoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcCj1zNpKoM
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- darkarmani 6y agoSo, create some dog-and-ponies AI start-up for this in the districts of the most influential lawmakers, with stated job counts (for AI-mechanical turk work that hires lots of people). Tie the "correct" solution to their real political motivations and it will get done in a heartbeat. It has to be something they can sell to their base though.
- ipnon 6y agoWe don't need to be cynical. We can demand that our government guarantees our rights to safety and privacy because they are not mutually exclusive.
- darkarmani 6y agoWell, it's being realistic. The politicians aren't choosing the best choice for us, they are choosing the choice that looks like the best choice for the hordes weighed against the interests of their powerful lobbyists. If privacy (as partially defined as crypto) looked important to the hordes of people and/or the lobbyists, we wouldn't have anything to worry about. Think about the children is a much easier platform to get elected for though.
- ajzinsbwbs 6y agoThat scares me. If that entrapment-at-scale is legal, it could be deployed to throw huge numbers of people in jail for buying drugs or supporting terrorism.
- bzb3 6y agoIf I emailed you and offered you to share pictures of naked 13 year olds, would you accept? If I texted you and told you I'm 13 years old, would you start hitting on me?
- ajzinsbwbs 6y agoNo I wouldn’t, but legal precedents that get set in these cases will carry over to prosecutions of other crimes.
- pphysch 6y agoThe gap between ideation and action is significant, and approaches like this are getting firmly into "prosecuting thought crime" territory.
- xondono 6y agoIf I hit reply to tell you to go to hell, did I just participate in the exchange of pictures of minors? (since your pictures will be quoted in my email)
- ipnon 6y agoNote that the AI is used to automate the work of the law enforcement agents, not the work of the judges and juries. The AI collects evidence that prosecutors use to build cases against defendants. The defendants still have the right to public trial in a court of law in front of a human judge and human jury. edit: It seems there is a misunderstanding of what the AI does. It simulates human traffickers in text or video chat in order to find people who try to exchange money with them, and it simulates children in text and video chat in order to find people who try to groom them. It does not simulate child sexual abuse material or proliferate child sexual abuse material.