> Image generation models capable of generating this type of content would necessarily need to be trained on the real thing This is absolutely not true. Genera

> Image generation models capable of generating this type of content would necessarily need to be trained on the real thing This is absolutely not true. Generalization is a key capability of image generation models. > Certainly this opens the door to a whole plethora of new "it's AI art, I swear!" defenses. The worst justification for a criminal prohibition that I can think of is that it is provides a convenient out for the difficulty of proving another, more clearly warranted, crime. > After all, how can one definitely prove that CSAM is authentic or not, unless the chain of production is verified? "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is not, and never had been, "definite".