AI-created child sexual abuse images 'threaten to overwhelm internet'

I thought most perps were parents, or close relatives, in which case the answer is an indecisive 50% yes/no.

But [1] from 1996 says

> There is increasing recognition that incest offenders may abuse children outside as well as inside the home. In a community sample of over 500 self-admitted male sexual offenders, Abel and colleagues(1987) found that 23.3% of men had offended against both family and non family members; 12% had offended exclusively against family members.

I'm guessing that means 65% are non-family, making your point very relevant.

1. https://www.academia.edu/download/7027369/Victims%20and%20Pe...

On a meta-note: I've thought for many years that the next step for cryptography is steganography. (I.e. true ones, not disk encryption that has a hidden partition, and unlocking one will make it obvious there's another...)

I did not expect machine learning to be the platform that paved the way for it. I thought we'd embed one file in an unrelated other file, and that some HMAC/AEAD algorithm would allow you to quickly know if a file has data hidden data you can decrypt. Both files being useful in their own right. Instead, we'll just flood the tubes with variations of the original, hiding the original in the crowd.

Ugh. The stuff we spend energy on producing.