Submitted by NoPotatoes in HackerNewsOuttakes (edited )
Commenter points out a questionable idea in a list of startup ideas posted to HN.
NN = neural network
GAN = generative adversarial network, a machine "learning" technique
For example, a GAN trained on photographs can generate new photographs that look at least superficially authentic to human observers, having many realistic characteristics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
lettuceLeafer wrote
CW mentioning rape of children.
This idea seems like a poor idea as it's based on actual pictures. But the idea of people who want child pornography paying artists to make incredibly realistic child porn is a massive improvement over paying people to rape children to make child porn. Tho I still think pedos viewing Loli porn of adults who can concent and aren't innocent children but look incredibly young is even better.
Yeah all imagery of the rape of children is inherently harmful to some degree. But fuck, selling the drawing seems like such a better alternative to people paying to have children raped. This whole anti all harm reductive CP rhetoric seems like a bad idea to me as it actually discourages strategies to minimize the rape of children and does nothing to actually prevent people viewing and creating real child porn.