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Interesting, to say the least. One of my first concerns is whether this tactic might eventually weaken the ability to prevent child abuse. To clarify, this is
by patcon 12y ago
Interesting, to say the least. One of my first concerns is whether this tactic might eventually weaken the ability to prevent child abuse.
To clarify, this is arguably an effective honeypot right now because it supposedly would not occur to a predator that the child is digital, and so they can be presumed guilty of engaging with a real child... But what about when body-scanning gets cheaper, and a foreign website claims to be offering the services of digital avatars, but is actually sourcing real children. Would this not give predators plausible deniability, and greatly challenge the prospect of prosecution?
This feels cynical of me to say, but I don't see this as an omen of future technological solution to social ills, but rather of uncomfortable future ambiguity