• subignition@fedia.io
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    19 days ago

    Not in the eyes of the law it isn’t.

    Separately… we don’t know how much variation there was in the source images. There is a lot of difference between your hypothetical fire-and-forget and the hypothetical on the other end, where the illegal images are mostly comprised of unique source images.

    It’s all hair-splitting, because at the end of the day, between the accused, their parents, and the environment around them, these kids should have been taught better than to do this.

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      19 days ago

      Yes, I know the law doesn’t care how they were generated. It was more just bringing up a point of consideration in the discussion.

      Even unique source images don’t mean much. If you have the know how, it’s one script to scrape the hundreds of images and a second one to modify them all.

      Again, not defending the kids. I’m just adding a technical perspective to the discussion