So child porn is now a national security issue?

Lumping image gen models, LLMs, and other forms of recent machine learning altogether and dressing it up in the "National Defence" ribbon doesn't seem like a great idea.

I don't think the ability for citizens to make deep fake porn of whoever they want is the same as a country not investing in practical defensive applications of AI.

> AI is a nation defense issue.

AI image editors attached to social media networks with a design that allows producing AI edits (including, but not limited to, nonconsensual intimate images and child pornography) of other user’s media without consent are not a national defense issue, and, even to the extent that AI arguably is a national defense issue, those particular applications can be curtailed entirely by a nation without any adverse impact on national defense.

You can distort any issue by zooming out to orbital level and ignoring the salient details.

"We have to make the revenge porn machine for national defense" is the sort of thing that makes people light bay area tech busses on fire.

I'm 90% sure LLMs are, just from how important code is, but image generators? Nah. They're as relevant to national sovereignty as having a local film industry: more than zero, because money is fungible, but still really really low.