> Inability to differentiate between real and fake - less theoretical.
This feels like a deeper, much more important topic that I'm at risk of writing thousands of words on. It feels like the distinction used to be .. more clearly labelled? And now nobody cares, and entire media ecosystems live on selling things that aren't really true as "news", with real and occasionally deadly consequences.
>> Inability to differentiate between real and fake - less theoretical.
> This feels like a deeper, much more important topic that I'm at risk of writing thousands of words on. It feels like the distinction used to be .. more clearly labelled? And now nobody cares, and entire media ecosystems live on selling things that aren't really true as "news", with real and occasionally deadly consequences.
I don't think he's talking about "media ecosystems" but rather enforcement. If fake CSAM proliferates (that can be confused for the real thing), it would create problems for investigating real cases. Investigative resources would be wasted investigating fake CSAM, and people may not report real CSAM because they falsely assume it's fake.
So it probably makes sense to make fake CSAM illegal, not because of the direct harm it does, but for the same reasons its illegal to lie to a police officer or make a false crime report.
This feels like a deeper, much more important topic that I'm at risk of writing thousands of words on. It feels like the distinction used to be .. more clearly labelled? And now nobody cares, and entire media ecosystems live on selling things that aren't really true as "news", with real and occasionally deadly consequences.