It would make as much sense, with all the strangling of CGI baboons...
Most of the laws that prohibit the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse imagery have been in place since the 1990s. Back then, Photoshop was in its infancy. The physical photographs that paedophiles shared were no less vile, but they were easier for the police to seize and destroy. Since then, technology has completely changed the way these people operate, making it possible to create and distribute horrifyingly life-like images and videos of children in seconds.
Yes, 'life-like'. It's not real. But maybe there are cases of real harm. Give us a 'for instance', will you?
A 15-year-old girl rang the NSPCC recently. An online stranger had edited photos from her social media to make fake nude images. The images showed her face and, in the background, you could see her bedroom. The girl was terrified that someone would send them to her parents and, worse still, the pictures were so convincing that she was scared her parents wouldn’t believe that they were fake.
And will this go down as 'a sexual assault of a child' in official government figures? I bet it will. Making the figures utterly worthless, since no-one's actually been assaulted.
That is why we are taking urgent action through a raft of new offences that will finally close the legal loopholes that paedophiles are exploiting to ruin young lives. If you are found in possession of a “paedophile manual”, you will now face years in jail. For the first time, we’ll imprison the people who are making the AI models that generate child sexual abuse material. Those who run or moderate websites where paedophiles share advice on how to groom children and avoid detection will spend a decade behind bars.
And where are you going to build all the extra jail space that will be needed, since they are actually at bursting point? Or will you simply let out genuine abusers to put away people getting naughty with pixels?
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