It's obviously "better" as there is no victim. I'm guessing in many cases the addict would be satisfied with artificial images, and no longer seek real images.

It's obviously "better" as there is no victim. I'm guessing in many cases the addict would be satisfied with artificial images, and no longer seek real images. > "Justice Department officials who investigate child exploitation have said those images are still illegal even if they’re AI-generated" The amount of surveillance, censorship and rules needed in society to catch a few sickos making bad AI image choices, is not worth the price. Go after the real abuse images all day, but artificial images can only ever be at the extreme end of distasteful, similar to horror-themed images. A sick arrangement of pixels. It has more in common with a pencil sketch than a real photo.