EP 027 The Dark Trade In AI Child Sexual Abuse Material: A Discussion With Journalist Octavia Sheepshanks
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New article Nov 2023
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-shadow-side-of-open-source-ai/
Octavia Sheepshanks is an intrepid freelance journalist and researcher driven to uncover compelling and demanding stories. Her diverse subjects of interest include space travel, mental health, feminism, and AI. Octavia’s current focus is on the dangerous proliferation of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, and she has dedicated herself to extensive research on the problem throughout 2023.Her work first came to prominence through an investigation conducted with The Times, which provided a sobering insight into a subject that demands immediate attention.In a subsequent investigation with the BBC, in which Octavia exposed the growing trade of illegal AI-CSAM on Patreon, and highlighted the dangerous consequences of Stable Diffusion’s open source release. In continuing to shed light on the creation and trade of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, and the terrifying scale of the problem, Octavia hopes to contribute to global efforts to fight the issue.
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