Lindsay Clancy and the AI Children of the Corn

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While you are waiting for Lindsay Clancy to be retried, AI-generated child porn has been legalized in the meantime.
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AI can now generate disturbingly realistic child sexual abuse material without involving a real child—and a recent U.S. court ruling found that possessing such virtual CSAM in the home is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment. Meanwhile, AI-powered childlike sex robots may be next. We’ve somehow reached the point where technology can make the nightmare indistinguishable from reality, while the law struggles to keep up.