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Why would someone downvote this post? We have a problem and it's in our best interest to fix that.
Because it's another "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN" hysteria bait post.
They found 112 images of cp in the whole Fediverse. That's a very small number. We're doing pretty good.
The report (if you can still find a working link) said that the vast majority of material that they found was drawn and animated, and hosted on one Mastodon instance out of Japan, where that shit is still legal.
Every time that little bit of truth comes up, someone reposts the broken link to the study, screaming about how it's the entire Fediverse riddled with child porn.
So basically we had a bad apple that was probably already defederated by everyone else.
It's Pawoo, Pixiv's (formerly) own instance, which is infamous for this kind of content, and those are still "just drawings" (unless some artists are using illegal real-life references).
They're using Generative AI to create photo realistic renditions now, and causing everyone who finds out about it to have a moral crisis.
Well, that's a very different and way more concerning thing...
... I mean ... idk ... If the argument is that the drawn version doesn't harm kids and gives pedos an outlet, is a ai generated version any different?
imo, the dicey part of the matter is "what amount of the AI's dataset is made up of actual images of children"
Shit that is a good point.
The study doesn't compare their findings to any other platform, so we can't really tell if those numbers are good or bad. They just state the absolute numbers, without really going into to much detail about their searching process. So no, you can't draw the conclusion that the Fediverse has a CSAM problem, at least not from this study.
Of course that makes you wonder why they bothered to publish such a lackluster and alarmistic study.
Pretty sure any quantity of CSAM that isnt zero is bad....