18 years for AI PIM creation

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Excuse the Daily Mail article:

A budding filmmaker who used AI to make indecent images of children was jailed for 18 years today – as footage emerged of him admitting to having a 'warped' mind.

Hugh Nelson said he was providing a 'valuable service' by taking 'commissions' from relatives and family friends of youngsters - charging them £80 to turn a real image of a child into a 3D 'character' being physically and sexually abused.

Operating from his family home near Bolton, Nelson used AI technology to manipulate innocent photographs of real children as young as four into scenes of nudity, rape and torture - making around £5,000 but giving out others for free.

He also discussed carrying out depraved child sexual abuse, although no evidence has been found that any children had actually been sexually abused.

It's not the kind of content I'd be interested in, and with images of actual children being used it can't be said to be purely harmless. But the harms incurred are primarily of a reputational nature. This man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for images when no evidence has been found that any children had actually been sexually abused. He has been sentenced to 18 years in prison primarily for depravity.

[Xuxa Nuit]

Fragment, do you think that it is okay for a person to think about whatever they please, totally unrestricted?
To ponder, dwell, ruminate, concentrate on wicked evil sinister thoughts & fantasies every moment of their waking lives for decades?
We don't need thought police?

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What do you mean by “do you think it’s okay”?

There’s a big difference between “people should avoid that type of thinking” and “people should go to prison for that type of thinking.

So long as it remains thinking, it’s typically only harmful to the thinker. External harms need to be proven for something to justify prosecution.