While in one way you could look at it and say possession shouldn't be illegal the problem is that to possess it someone must have created it. If there's a mark

While in one way you could look at it and say possession shouldn't be illegal the problem is that to possess it someone must have created it. If there's a market in it some people will engage in it to satisfy that market. Thus, possession of real CSAM has an indirect victim. I had previously proposed that if the abuser has been caught that the victim should get the rights to the images and once they are an adult be allowed to legally sell them (thus a list of legally permitted images), but the AI image revolution has changed that. Have AIs sign their images, CSAM with a proper signature is legal.