The decision could set a precedent for future monitoring of people convicted of indecent image offences

A sex offender convicted of making more than 1,000 indecent images of children has been banned from using any “AI creating tools” for the next five years in the first known case of its kind.

Anthony Dover, 48, was ordered by a UK court “not to use, visit or access” artificial intelligence generation tools without the prior permission of police as a condition of a sexual harm prevention order imposed in February.

The ban prohibits him from using tools such as text-to-image generators, which can make lifelike pictures based on a written command, and “nudifying” websites used to make explicit “deepfakes”.

Dover, who was given a community order and £200 fine, has also been explicitly ordered not to use Stable Diffusion software, which has reportedly been exploited by paedophiles to create hyper-realistic child sexual abuse material, according to records from a sentencing hearing at Poole magistrates court.

  • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    But then we cannot say that in either direction. We simply don’t know if they are more or less likely to attack a child without data about it.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      By “harmful ways” I meant consuming more real CSAM - something that is frustratingly underresearched as well, but one can guess.