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It is a problem, just as crime in general in society. But our efforts to stamp it out completely could cause more harm than good. The price of liberty, is unfortunately crime. Otherwise if we go too far in preventing crime, we will be living in a totalitarian state.

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if crime is done to me personally, it takes away my liberty. individuals have rights, which is the foundational concept of the Enlightenment and all modern society.

there is no panic here. every reasonable person agrees this is a problem, and it will take very little effort to fix it. these AI companies are not hurting for money. every single one of them is valued in the billions of dollars. they can spare "0.5 ppm" of their funding to go do what almost everyone agrees needs to be done.

I don't think that there actually is a low effort fix. Any sort of hashing or filtering strategy is inevitably going to miss some things. It's likely not possible to have humans manually review every image and even if you could, then you'd have the problem of traumatizing the people doing the review.

I'm not saying that more shouldn't be done, but that doesn't mean that the solution is easy or that a perfect solution even exists.

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