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- 0:00Speaker 1: You might like to think that your texts or DMs
- 0:02Speaker 1: are at least somewhat private when you communicate with people
- 0:05Speaker 1: on social media platforms like Instagram. They're actually monitored automatically
- 0:09Speaker 1: for any signs of criminal activity, particularly criminal activity that
- 0:12Speaker 1: might endanger children. And that's why in October of 2023, Meta,
- 0:16Speaker 1: which is the parent company of Instagram, was able to
- 0:19Speaker 1: alert the feds about a 42-year-old man in Wisconsin named
- 0:23Speaker 1: Stephen Anderegg. Now, Meta has been in the news lately
- 0:27Speaker 1: for allowing Instagram to become a haven for child predators,
- 0:30Speaker 1: as you may have seen. So they've implemented all kinds
- 0:33Speaker 1: of monitoring systems and algorithm changes, agreed to settlements, et cetera.
- 0:38Speaker 1: And in this case, they determined that Anderegg was transmitting
- 0:41Speaker 1: apparent child pornography to another user. And very quickly, the
- 0:45Speaker 1: feds determined that Anderegg was a software engineer with a
- 0:48Speaker 1: background in AI models. They obtained a search warrant seized
- 0:52Speaker 1: all of Anderegg's devices, including multiple cell phones and a laptop.
- 0:56Speaker 1: At that point, the authorities discovered that Anderegg had been
- 0:59Speaker 1: entering text prompts into an AI model called stable diffusion.
- 1:04Speaker 1: And the model generated thousands of explicit images depicting miners.
- 1:09Speaker 1: And more specifically, Anderegg had installed some third-party software on
- 1:12Speaker 1: top of stable diffusion, which allowed the model to create
- 1:15Speaker 1: these kinds of images. So this was not something the
- 1:17Speaker 1: model would have done by itself, you know, off the shelf,
- 1:20Speaker 1: as it were. Anderegg was then charged with producing, distributing,
- 1:24Speaker 1: and possessing child sexual abuse material, or CSAM.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Watch.
- 1:30Speaker 3: A man from Holman, Wisconsin, was arrested and charged from
- 1:33Speaker 3: crimes relating to inappropriate AI-generated images of children. The Wisconsin
- 1:37Speaker 3: Department of Justice says 42-year-old Stephen Anderegg used text-to-image generative
- 1:42Speaker 3: AI model to create realistic images of new children.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Now, that report was from two years ago. It seemed
- 1:49Speaker 1: like a Pretty straightforward case. Certainly that's how the DOJ
- 1:53Speaker 1: presented it. But last week, somewhat unexpectedly, the Seventh Circuit
- 1:58Speaker 1: Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of the possession charge
- 2:02Speaker 1: against Anderegg, saying the First Amendment of the Constitution protects
- 2:06Speaker 1: his right to possess obscene material in his own home.
- 2:11Speaker 1: This ruling was based on two major Supreme Court precedents.
- 2:14Speaker 1: The first precedent is that your home is a sacred
- 2:17Speaker 1: space where you can be as obscene as you want.
- 2:20Speaker 1: And initially, the ruling was based on another Supreme Court
- 2:22Speaker 1: precedent from 2002, which basically gave the green light to
- 2:26Speaker 1: the possession of child pornography as long as it was
- 2:29Speaker 1: virtual child pornography where no child was supposedly involved.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Now, of course, in 2002, computer graphics.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Technology in general, were nowhere near as advanced as they
- 2:39Speaker 1: are today. They didn't have AI-generated images at all. But
- 2:43Speaker 1: that distinction doesn't matter, at least according to the precedent
- 2:46Speaker 1: that we have today. Several of the judges made it
- 2:48Speaker 1: clear that they don't like the precedent. They want the
- 2:50Speaker 1: Supreme Court to change their ruling on virtual child pornography,
- 2:53Speaker 1: but they ruled that as the law stands, you can
- 2:57Speaker 1: possess AI-generated child pornography as long as it's contained within
- 3:01Speaker 1: the home. Quoting from the ruling, the Constitution extends special
- 3:05Speaker 1: safeguards to the privacy of the home. The Supreme Court
- 3:07Speaker 1: has held that the state's power simply does not extend
- 3:11Speaker 1: to mere possession by the individual in the privacy of
- 3:13Speaker 1: his own home. If the First Amendment means anything, the
- 3:16Speaker 1: court explained, it means that a state has no business
- 3:18Speaker 1: telling a man sitting alone in his own house, what
- 3:21Speaker 1: books he may read or what films he may watch.
- 3:26Speaker 1: So to be clear, Anderegg still faces charges of distributing
- 3:28Speaker 1: and manufacturing this material. So he's on the hook for
- 3:32Speaker 1: transmitting the material and for using his computer to create them.
- 3:38Speaker 1: But if this ruling stands, he won't face a possession charge.
- 3:41Speaker 1: So basically, if you're in your own home, then you
- 3:43Speaker 1: can legally possess this horrific, immoral, evil material. that obviously
- 3:49Speaker 1: no human being should ever have, and as long as
- 3:52Speaker 1: you don't send it to somebody else. Now, it needs
- 3:57Speaker 1: to be pointed out here that, yes, this ruling is
- 4:00Speaker 1: as incoherent as it sounds. If something is too horrible
- 4:04Speaker 1: to give to someone else or to make it, then
- 4:09Speaker 1: it's too horrible.
- 4:10Speaker 2: To possess in your own home. I mean, that seems
- 4:13Speaker 2: pretty obvious.
- 4:13Speaker 1: You should be secure in your home from any kind
- 4:15Speaker 1: of unlawful government search or seizure. The government shouldn't be
- 4:19Speaker 1: able to monitor, you know, what goes on inside your
- 4:23Speaker 1: home whenever they want. But at the same time, the
- 4:25Speaker 1: government can absolutely make it a crime to possess certain
- 4:27Speaker 1: things inside your property.
- 4:30Speaker 2: And this should obviously be one of them.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Nevertheless, depending on who you ask, this ruling is either
- 4:36Speaker 1: a validation of our right to privacy.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Your home is your castle and so on.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Or it's effectively the legalization of child pornography in the
- 4:43Speaker 1: United States. I mean, after all, you can imagine the
- 4:45Speaker 1: difficulty prosecutors might have in the future. if they need
- 4:48Speaker 1: to prove that a certain image is genuine as opposed
- 4:51Speaker 1: to AI-generated, this decision opens up many different avenues for
- 4:56Speaker 1: pedophiles to fight their convictions, and it could lead to
- 5:00Speaker 1: a mass release of these degenerates all over the country.
- 5:03Speaker 1: It's going to be the number one defense of every
- 5:05Speaker 1: pedophile from this moment forward, at least in the Seventh Circuit.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's not real. It's just AI, they'll say.
- 5:12Speaker 1: How exactly are the prosecutors going to disprove that beyond
- 5:15Speaker 1: any reasonable doubt? In some cases, it may not be
- 5:18Speaker 1: as easy as it seems, and it's only going to
- 5:20Speaker 1: get more difficult as the technology improves. And the same
- 5:23Speaker 1: problem applies to all video evidence in court, by the way.
- 5:25Speaker 1: It's a nightmare with no obvious solution. Now, first, it's
- 5:29Speaker 1: important to understand that Anderag is not alone. AI-generated child
- 5:33Speaker 1: pornography is a booming industry. There are many, many more
- 5:36Speaker 1: cases like this. So here's an ongoing case out of
- 5:39Speaker 1: New Mexico, for example.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Watch.
- 5:42Speaker 4: Police department, search warrant.
- 5:46Speaker 5: A police raid on a man accused of using AI
- 5:49Speaker 5: to create disgusting images of children. Images so vile, we
- 5:54Speaker 5: can barely describe them. The affiant informed Mr. Gallagher that
- 6:03Speaker 5: the cyber tip was from Synchronos, which is a cloud service,
- 6:06Speaker 5: and that there were reports of child sex abuse material
- 6:09Speaker 5: from his account. Mr.
- 6:11Speaker 4: Gallagher stated that he did not know he had the cloud.
- 6:15Speaker 4: The affiant asked Mr. Gallagher if investigators would find any
- 6:19Speaker 4: images of new children on his devices. Mr. Gallagher responded,
- 6:23Speaker 4: you might.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Mr.
- 6:24Speaker 4: Gallagher said that those images were from a long time
- 6:27Speaker 4: ago and that they were mostly just AI. The affiant
- 6:31Speaker 4: asked Mr. Gallagher if the images of the new children
- 6:34Speaker 4: provided him with sexual gratification and Mr. Gallagher responded, yeah,
- 6:38Speaker 4: I guess so.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Mr.
- 6:40Speaker 4: Gallagher said that he had not been content for very
- 6:43Speaker 4: long and that he was just lonely.
- 6:47Speaker 1: Unlike Andre, Gallagher is accused of feeding genuine images of
- 6:52Speaker 1: real life children, which he found online, into an AI
- 6:55Speaker 1: app to edit them to create CSAM. This is something
- 7:01Speaker 1: you need to keep in mind when you upload family
- 7:03Speaker 1: photos to websites like Facebook. You know, when you share
- 7:06Speaker 1: these kinds of images with the entire world, it's very
- 7:07Speaker 1: likely that a pervert is going to see them or
- 7:10Speaker 1: could see them. And right now, these perverts have a
- 7:13Speaker 1: lot of AI tools they can use in order to
- 7:15Speaker 1: do whatever they want with those images. They can create
- 7:17Speaker 1: pornography or they can make deep fakes in an attempt
- 7:20Speaker 1: to blackmail you.
- 7:21Speaker 2: They can steal identities. I mean, it's something everyone has
- 7:24Speaker 2: to be aware of.
- 7:26Speaker 1: And this case, as alleged by the authorities, Gallagher took
- 7:29Speaker 1: innocuous photos from social media and had the AI transform
- 7:32Speaker 1: them into pornography. And that might seem like a pretty
- 7:36Speaker 1: significant distinction from Anderegg, who, as far as we know,
- 7:40Speaker 1: did not deliberately use any real photos of children when
- 7:44Speaker 1: he created his AI-generated content. But you have to keep
- 7:47Speaker 1: in mind that AI models, by their nature, are trained
- 7:51Speaker 1: on images of actual children.
- 7:53Speaker 2: That's how they work.
- 7:54Speaker 1: They source an enormous amount of information, including pictures. Anyone
- 7:58Speaker 1: who uses an AI model to generate an obscene picture
- 8:01Speaker 1: of a child is is relying on the fact that
- 8:03Speaker 1: the AI has a vast database of millions of images.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Of children to draw from.
- 8:06Speaker 1: And that's true when it comes to stable diffusion, the
- 8:10Speaker 1: model that Anderegg used. This was reported by Ars Technology
- 8:14Speaker 1: back in 2023, quote, more than a thousand known child
- 8:18Speaker 1: sexual abuse materials, CSAM, were found in a large open
- 8:22Speaker 1: dataset known as LAION5B that was used to train popular
- 8:28Speaker 1: text image generators such as stable diffusion, Stanford Internet Observatory
- 8:32Speaker 1: researcher David Thiel revealed, our new investigation reveals that these
- 8:39Speaker 1: models are trained directly on CSAM present in a public
- 8:43Speaker 1: database of billions of images. The data set included known
- 8:47Speaker 1: CSAM scraped from a wide array of sources, including mainstream
- 8:52Speaker 1: social media websites like Reddit, X, WordPress, and Blogspot, as
- 8:55Speaker 1: well as popular adult video sites like XHamster and XVideos.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Beyond verifying 1,008 instances of this kind of material in
- 9:05Speaker 1: the dataset, SIO found 3,226 instances of suspected CSAM in
- 9:10Speaker 1: the dataset. Thiel's report warned that both figures are inherently
- 9:15Speaker 1: a significant undercount due to researchers' limited ability to detect
- 9:20Speaker 1: and flag.
- 9:20Speaker 2: All the CSAM in the datasets.
- 9:22Speaker 1: His report also predicted that the repercussions of Stable Diffusion's 1.5's
- 9:26Speaker 1: training process will be with us for some time to come.
- 9:29Speaker 1: So in practice, it's reasonable to say that every AI-generated
- 9:33Speaker 1: image of a child, one way or another, involved an
- 9:37Speaker 1: actual child at some point in the process. An AI
- 9:41Speaker 1: simply cannot make a realistic image of a child if
- 9:43Speaker 1: it's never seen an actual child. But in many of
- 9:46Speaker 1: these cases, judges are saying that their hands are tied.
- 9:49Speaker 1: In cases of AI-generated child pornography, that's what they're claiming.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Here's one more case from Indianapolis. Watch.
- 9:57Speaker 6: A Marion County judge has found a man accused of
- 10:00Speaker 6: creating child pornography not guilty, not because he didn't do it,
- 10:04Speaker 6: but because the way he did it is beyond Indiana
- 10:07Speaker 6: state law. Our Russ McQuaid examines how artificial intelligence is
- 10:12Speaker 6: challenging law enforcement in their quest to protect Hoosier children.
- 10:17Speaker 7: Last year we told you about the arrest of a
- 10:19Speaker 7: man charged with 10 counts of child exploitation and child pornography.
- 10:24Speaker 7: Because he was found not guilty, we can't tell you
- 10:26Speaker 7: his name, but we can tell you what he was
- 10:28Speaker 7: accused of and why a judge thinks that state lawmakers
- 10:31Speaker 7: need to tighten up their laws when it comes to
- 10:34Speaker 7: artificially created AI pornography. This probable cause affidavit alleges, quote,
- 10:40Speaker 7: two images located on the man's phone depicted minor females.
- 10:45Speaker 7: With use of an AI mirror program, he transformed the
- 10:50Speaker 7: images to depict female teenagers to be nude.
- 10:54Speaker 1: These are rulings that have clear ramifications for our culture,
- 10:57Speaker 1: our politics, many other ongoing debates that we're seeing. It's
- 11:02Speaker 1: become very common for someone to invoke the right to
- 11:04Speaker 1: privacy and shut down debate across.
- 11:06Speaker 2: A wide range of issues.
- 11:09Speaker 1: So we need to resolve some fundamental questions about what
- 11:12Speaker 1: the Constitution says and what it does not say. We
- 11:14Speaker 1: also need to identify the red lines that we simply
- 11:18Speaker 1: won't cross as a society. Now, this is hard to
- 11:23Speaker 1: do because unless you are homeschooled, then you've been through
- 11:27Speaker 1: a school system that in all likelihood has been relentlessly
- 11:30Speaker 1: lying to you. So some of these questions become more
- 11:34Speaker 1: difficult than they should be. One of the main lies
- 11:37Speaker 1: you'll hear is that in reality, there are no difficult
- 11:40Speaker 1: choices to be made when it comes to our legal rights.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Barack Obama was fond of reading lines like, we reject
- 11:47Speaker 1: as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.
- 11:50Speaker 1: That was from his first inaugural speech, but he mentioned
- 11:52Speaker 1: it many times afterwards. It was always a vapid statement,
- 11:55Speaker 1: but people seemed to think it was profound. The truth is,
- 11:57Speaker 1: whether we like it or not, there are indeed choices
- 12:00Speaker 1: to be made when it comes to balancing safety and ideals.
- 12:04Speaker 1: The safety of our children and our ideals. These are
- 12:09Speaker 1: choices that everyone makes every single day.
- 12:11Speaker 2: We see it everywhere.
- 12:13Speaker 1: For instance, the presumption of innocence is an ideal. We
- 12:16Speaker 1: don't want to treat people as criminals without any evidence.
- 12:19Speaker 1: But sometimes, say, when people want to board an airplane,
- 12:23Speaker 1: we have to balance that ideal with security. And by
- 12:26Speaker 1: the same token, we have to recognize that no right,
- 12:28Speaker 1: including the right to freedom of speech, the right to privacy,
- 12:32Speaker 1: is absolute in every single case. And before you jump
- 12:35Speaker 1: down my throat, yes, I'm aware of Orwell wrote a
- 12:38Speaker 1: book called 1984, I'm aware Ben Franklin once said, those
- 12:41Speaker 1: who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
- 12:43Speaker 1: temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- 12:46Speaker 2: That's a handy quote, but it's also just a quote.
- 12:50Speaker 1: And for that matter, Franklin was careful to mention essential
- 12:53Speaker 1: liberty and temporary safety, which pretty clearly is a way
- 12:57Speaker 1: of sort of kicking the can down the road, or
- 12:59Speaker 1: at least qualifying it. What liberties are essential exactly? And
- 13:05Speaker 1: what if we can obtain permanent safety in a certain,
- 13:07Speaker 1: or something close to it, in a certain area of life.
- 13:12Speaker 1: But Ben Franklin didn't say because he wanted us to
- 13:14Speaker 1: figure it out. But the founders, including Franklin, did have
- 13:17Speaker 1: a very clear preference for national security over some vaguely
- 13:20Speaker 1: defined right to privacy at the individual level. This is
- 13:24Speaker 1: important to understand because almost no one says it anymore.
- 13:26Speaker 1: The constitutional right to privacy is an invention of the
- 13:30Speaker 1: extremely left-wing Supreme Court in the 50s and 60s, which
- 13:34Speaker 1: wanted to invent a constitutional right to birth control and abortion.
- 13:39Speaker 2: So it's fake.
- 13:39Speaker 1: There is no generalized right to privacy at all beyond
- 13:44Speaker 1: the text of the Fourth Amendment. Now, until the 1960s,
- 13:47Speaker 1: there wasn't a single Supreme Court decision that recognized any
- 13:50Speaker 1: right to privacy outside of the Fourth Amendment because these
- 13:53Speaker 1: words do not appear anywhere in the actual document. And
- 13:58Speaker 1: this explains why when they were running the country, the
- 14:00Speaker 1: founders did not go to particularly great lengths to enshrine
- 14:06Speaker 1: anyone's privacy as a God-given right, at least once they
- 14:09Speaker 1: were outside their home, certainly. I mean, look up the
- 14:12Speaker 1: Collection Act of 1789, which was passed by the first
- 14:15Speaker 1: Congress in 1789. This is a law that allowed the
- 14:18Speaker 1: authorities to enter any ship or vessel to search for
- 14:21Speaker 1: goods that might be concealed. They could search both American
- 14:24Speaker 1: and foreign ships. The only requirement was that the authorities
- 14:27Speaker 1: have reason to suspect that taxable goods were on board somewhere.
- 14:31Speaker 1: If they wanted to search a home or business, the
- 14:33Speaker 1: authorities needed a warrant. But under this law, the authorities
- 14:36Speaker 1: could search a ship top to bottom based on a
- 14:39Speaker 1: mere hunch. And the next year, an even broader law
- 14:42Speaker 1: was passed, allowing for, quote, all collectors, naval officers, surveyors,
- 14:45Speaker 1: inspectors to go on board of ships or vessels in
- 14:48Speaker 1: any part of the United States or within four leagues
- 14:51Speaker 1: of the coast thereof, if bound to the United States
- 14:54Speaker 1: for the purposes of demanding the manifest and of examining
- 14:56Speaker 1: and searching the said ships or vessels and the said
- 14:59Speaker 1: officers respectively shall have free access to the cabin and
- 15:02Speaker 1: every other part of a ship or vessel. And by
- 15:04Speaker 1: the way, These kinds of searches were not limited to
- 15:06Speaker 1: ships arriving at ports of entry. Consider the tax on
- 15:08Speaker 1: whiskey that was imposed in 1791, which was also passed
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- 15:14Speaker 1: permitted officers to enter, quote, houses, storehouses, warehouses, buildings, and
- 15:18Speaker 1: places that have been registered as distilleries at all times
- 15:22Speaker 1: in the daytime upon request.
- 15:24Speaker 2: No warrant was needed.
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- 17:42Speaker 1: for warranty and promotion details. So know that the founders
- 17:47Speaker 1: did not believe that you have some absolute right to
- 17:48Speaker 1: avoid searches or seizures when you're outside your home.
- 17:51Speaker 2: Quite the opposite.
- 17:52Speaker 1: When you engage in an activity that the government has
- 17:54Speaker 1: an interest in regulating, whether you're traveling to a port
- 17:57Speaker 1: or selling whiskey, Ben Franklin would have no problem with
- 18:00Speaker 1: the authorities searching your stuff without a warrant. That's because, again,
- 18:04Speaker 1: the right to privacy as such did not exist. It
- 18:08Speaker 1: hadn't been invented yet by activist courts looking to legitimize
- 18:12Speaker 1: baby murder and other atrocities. In the Roe decision, the
- 18:15Speaker 1: Supreme Court found in the Constitution a right to abortion,
- 18:20Speaker 1: even though abortion is never mentioned anywhere in the document.
- 18:23Speaker 1: nor did any of the framers even hint that they
- 18:25Speaker 1: had prenatal homicide in mind when they wrote it, obviously.
- 18:29Speaker 1: The court recognized this obstacle, so it inferred a right
- 18:32Speaker 1: to abortion from the right to privacy found in the
- 18:36Speaker 1: 14th Amendment. The only problem, of course, is that the
- 18:37Speaker 1: 14th Amendment doesn't say anything about a right to privacy.
- 18:40Speaker 1: The phrase right to privacy appears nowhere in the Bill
- 18:42Speaker 1: of Rights at all. And even if it did, of course,
- 18:45Speaker 1: it would require a galactic leap of logic to get
- 18:47Speaker 1: from I have a right to privacy to I have
- 18:48Speaker 1: a right to directly kill this biological human life. So
- 18:51Speaker 1: The court founded its right to abortion, which is not
- 18:54Speaker 1: enumerated on another right that is not enumerated and which,
- 18:56Speaker 1: even if it were enumerated, still would not logically apply
- 18:59Speaker 1: to abortion. Now, Roe, of course, has been overturned, but
- 19:02Speaker 1: the general right to privacy fiction remains. And, you know,
- 19:05Speaker 1: when I say fiction, the point is not that we
- 19:07Speaker 1: should have no privacy or that the government has the
- 19:10Speaker 1: magical right to invade our privacy whenever it wants. Obviously,
- 19:14Speaker 1: neither of those are the case or should be the
- 19:16Speaker 1: case anyway. The point is that the right to privacy
- 19:19Speaker 1: is not some sort of absolute legal principle.
- 19:21Speaker 2: It can't be.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Just because you're doing something in private doesn't necessarily make
- 19:26Speaker 1: it okay or legal. A great majority of the crimes
- 19:29Speaker 1: people commit every single day are committed by someone at
- 19:32Speaker 1: least attempting to be, at some level, secretive.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Or private about it.
- 19:37Speaker 1: Enforcing laws and arresting criminals will always involve an invasion
- 19:42Speaker 1: of privacy. And so privacy cannot be sacrosanct. It is conditional.
- 19:47Speaker 1: And the Constitution already recognized that and laid out some
- 19:50Speaker 1: of the conditions, which is why by the Fourth Amendment,
- 19:53Speaker 1: you don't have a right to be free from search
- 19:55Speaker 1: and seizure generally, but from unreasonable search and seizure.
- 19:59Speaker 2: Well, what counts as unreasonable?
- 20:01Speaker 1: You know, that's a qualifier that's been debated for like
- 20:04Speaker 1: 230 years and will be debated for another 230 years
- 20:07Speaker 1: if we're still around. There's really no way around it.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Because the only way around it is to dispense with
- 20:12Speaker 1: the qualifiers and declare that you either have an absolute
- 20:15Speaker 1: unquestioned right to privacy in all cases or no right
- 20:19Speaker 1: to privacy in any case at all. And neither of
- 20:21Speaker 1: those extremes are workable or rational. So that takes us
- 20:25Speaker 1: back to the case of Stephen Anderegg and other pedophiles
- 20:29Speaker 1: who are using AI to create child pornography. Yes, Anderegg
- 20:32Speaker 1: was being charged for conduct inside his own home, which
- 20:35Speaker 1: is different from being out in public.
- 20:40Speaker 2: Treated differently, legally, often.
- 20:44Speaker 1: The home is entitled to far more protections than anywhere
- 20:46Speaker 1: else in terms of privacy. But once again, that cannot
- 20:50Speaker 1: be absolute. There's a reason you're not allowed to possess
- 20:53Speaker 1: a nuclear bomb in your home or a dead body.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Even in your own home, the right to privacy is
- 21:00Speaker 1: not absolute.
- 21:01Speaker 2: It can't be.
- 21:03Speaker 1: Which was my position, which you've probably deduced by now,
- 21:06Speaker 1: is that we should absolutely, of course, ban AI from
- 21:09Speaker 1: making this stuff and arrest anyone.
- 21:10Speaker 2: Who consumes it. Pretty simple.
- 21:14Speaker 1: Might not be easy to enforce in every case because
- 21:17Speaker 1: of how widespread this technology is, but it's simple.
- 21:22Speaker 2: It's a simple thing.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Now, even if you can somehow prove that the AI
- 21:27Speaker 1: model didn't rely on any actual pictures of children, which
- 21:31Speaker 1: you can't, It doesn't matter. Nor does it matter if
- 21:35Speaker 1: some pedophile is merely possessing this material in his own
- 21:38Speaker 1: home where he supposedly wasn't hurting anyone else. This logic,
- 21:41Speaker 1: the idea that, you know, if it doesn't hurt anyone,
- 21:43Speaker 1: then it's fine, has infested our culture and conservatism more
- 21:47Speaker 1: generally for decades. And in every single case, or in
- 21:50Speaker 1: a great majority of cases, it makes society.
- 21:53Speaker 2: Worse for everybody.
- 21:54Speaker 1: You know, gay marriage, marijuana, medically assisted suicide, Sports betting, abortion,
- 22:00Speaker 1: no-fault divorce. Again and again, we've been told to relax.
- 22:03Speaker 1: It doesn't actually affect anyone else. But it turns out
- 22:07Speaker 1: that when you endorse deviant and immoral behavior in an
- 22:09Speaker 1: individual context, then before long, you see the consequences everywhere.
- 22:15Speaker 1: You can't go two blocks in New York without smelling pot.
- 22:18Speaker 1: Women in Massachusetts are now rallying around a woman who
- 22:20Speaker 1: executed her children one by one. Teenagers with mental health
- 22:24Speaker 1: problems are getting put down in Canada so that the
- 22:27Speaker 1: state can harvest their organs. Gambling has ruined sports in
- 22:30Speaker 1: about 20 different ways to the point that we now
- 22:32Speaker 1: have live betting odds displayed prominently on screen. Women are
- 22:35Speaker 1: more miserable, more medicated than ever. All of these downstream
- 22:39Speaker 1: consequences are felt by everyone in society, not just the
- 22:43Speaker 1: people who get the abortions or take the drugs or
- 22:46Speaker 1: whatever else. And we've ended up in this place because
- 22:50Speaker 1: of this non-existent failing moral framework that says that something
- 22:55Speaker 1: is automatically okay as long as no one else is
- 22:58Speaker 1: directly actively harmed by it. And oftentimes when they say
- 23:04Speaker 1: no one's directly actively harmed by it, they actually are. Abortion,
- 23:07Speaker 1: there's another person being actively harmed, you know.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Even before you get to the societal harm, obviously.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Now, along the same lines, AI-generated sexually explicit images of
- 23:16Speaker 1: children harm society more broadly and the nation as a whole.
- 23:22Speaker 1: And that is precisely the kind of harm that the
- 23:26Speaker 1: Any society where perverts can gorge themselves legally on hours
- 23:31Speaker 1: of this kind of stuff is obviously a society no
- 23:34Speaker 1: healthy person wants to live in.
- 23:37Speaker 2: We would all be the victims of it.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Not to mention all the research showing that indulging a
- 23:42Speaker 1: compulsion only makes the compulsion stronger, which means real human
- 23:46Speaker 1: children are put at greater risk. Here's just one study
- 23:50Speaker 1: from researchers in Montreal. It says, quote, This study analyzed
- 23:55Speaker 1: the evolution over time of the activity of consumers of
- 23:58Speaker 1: child sexual exploitation material. To this end, images and metadata
- 24:02Speaker 1: were extracted from the hard drives of 40 individuals convicted
- 24:05Speaker 1: of possession of child pornography and analyzed. The most prevalent
- 24:09Speaker 1: pattern was a progressive decrease in the age of the
- 24:12Speaker 1: person depicted and a progressive increase in the severity of
- 24:16Speaker 1: the sexual acts. So in other words, over time, the
- 24:19Speaker 1: children in this material became younger. and the content became
- 24:26Speaker 1: even more explicit. They get some exposure to this stuff,
- 24:30Speaker 1: and then their compulsion becomes more severe and even more depraved.
- 24:34Speaker 1: Then there's this study from the Journal of Family Violence
- 24:36Speaker 1: in 2009 known as the Butner Study. They interviewed people
- 24:39Speaker 1: who had been convicted of possessing child pornography but hadn't
- 24:43Speaker 1: been charged with actually abusing a child in person. What
- 24:46Speaker 1: the researchers discovered is that many of these people had
- 24:48Speaker 1: also abused children in real life. They simply hadn't been
- 24:51Speaker 1: discovered by investigators yet. Quote, Our findings showed the Internet
- 24:54Speaker 1: offenders in our sample were significantly more likely than not
- 24:57Speaker 1: to have abused a child via a hands-on act. They
- 25:00Speaker 1: also indicated that the offenders who abused children were likely
- 25:03Speaker 1: to have offended against multiple victims, that the incidence of
- 25:07Speaker 1: crossover by gender and age is high. So this is
- 25:11Speaker 1: one of the dangers posed by all forms of child pornography,
- 25:15Speaker 1: whether it's AI-generated or not. Very often, it's not simply
- 25:17Speaker 1: an online crime, as evil as that crime already is.
- 25:22Speaker 2: It's a precursor to real life sexual assault.
- 25:27Speaker 1: You know, sometimes here it argued in defense of AI
- 25:29Speaker 1: child porn or other supposedly fictional depictions of child abuse.
- 25:33Speaker 1: You'll sometimes hear it argued that, well, you know, this
- 25:35Speaker 1: might be a way to actually prevent child abuse because
- 25:38Speaker 1: it gives the perverts an allegedly safe outlet. Well, even
- 25:45Speaker 1: if that were true, the stuff should still be banned.
- 25:49Speaker 1: No such outlet should exist, and anyone who needs that
- 25:52Speaker 1: sort of outlet should simply be imprisoned at a minimum.
- 25:55Speaker 2: At a minimum.
- 25:56Speaker 1: But it turns out that this whole outlet idea is
- 25:59Speaker 1: a psychological misnomer. You don't tamp down a compulsion or
- 26:02Speaker 1: keep it contained and under control by indulging it. The
- 26:05Speaker 1: more it's indulged, the stronger it grows. And that's true
- 26:09Speaker 1: of any compulsion. And it's certainly true of this, which
- 26:13Speaker 1: is the worst compulsion a person can have. So put simply,
- 26:16Speaker 1: there's no compelling reason at all to allow people to
- 26:19Speaker 1: use AI this way? Does anyone have a God-given right
- 26:24Speaker 1: to generate horrific sexual.
- 26:25Speaker 2: Images with AI? Obviously not. Does anyone have a God-given
- 26:30Speaker 2: right to use AI at all for anything? No.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Does it help society or the country in any way
- 26:37Speaker 1: for people to be doing this? Obviously not. Is it
- 26:40Speaker 1: grotesque and evil and bad? Obviously it is.
- 26:45Speaker 2: Therefore, it should be banned. It really is that simple.
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- 28:57Speaker 1: that you don't have a right to do it, it's
- 28:59Speaker 1: not a God-given right. It does not improve society in
- 29:04Speaker 1: any way. It's horrifically evil and degrades society at a minimum.
- 29:11Speaker 1: In all those cases, that thing should be banned, whatever
- 29:14Speaker 1: it is. And that's why we have prohibitions. That's why
- 29:17Speaker 1: you have the concept of banning things. It's for precisely
- 29:20Speaker 1: those kinds of things. There's no real argument to not
- 29:24Speaker 1: ban it. Now, people will argue that, well, you know,
- 29:28Speaker 1: we have violent video games like Grand Theft Auto, and
- 29:31Speaker 1: they allow you to do horrible things as well, like
- 29:33Speaker 1: shoot police officers. Although I'll note that they don't allow
- 29:36Speaker 1: you to murder children, much less sexually assault them. And yes,
- 29:40Speaker 1: it's clearly a net negative for society, I would say,
- 29:43Speaker 1: to have millions of children murdering police officers in a
- 29:48Speaker 1: game for fun. But there are two important distinctions to
- 29:50Speaker 1: draw here. First, Grand Theft Auto has a narrative, at
- 29:54Speaker 1: least superficially. The games have a story that you're working through.
- 29:58Speaker 1: And even when you take a detour to commit an
- 29:59Speaker 1: act of domestic terrorism in the game, you're still playing
- 30:02Speaker 1: as one of the characters from that narrative. And secondly,
- 30:04Speaker 1: and more to the point, and this is really all
- 30:07Speaker 1: that needs to be said, is you have to draw
- 30:08Speaker 1: lines somewhere. Obviously, we all agree that there have to
- 30:12Speaker 1: be lines. And if we can't draw the line here,
- 30:17Speaker 1: then where exactly do you draw them? This is where
- 30:21Speaker 1: I disagree with a lot of commentators on the common
- 30:23Speaker 1: good conservatism debate. It's a question of whether the government
- 30:28Speaker 1: should only protect individual liberty or does it have a
- 30:31Speaker 1: role in protecting the general welfare of its people and
- 30:34Speaker 1: to some extent promoting public virtue. And I would say
- 30:37Speaker 1: the government does have an obligation in the latter respect
- 30:41Speaker 1: to protect the general welfare. If you're an individual liberty conservative,
- 30:45Speaker 1: then you have no argument really, or only a weak
- 30:48Speaker 1: one for banning AI generated child pornography. If you believe
- 30:54Speaker 1: the government should be protecting the general welfare of the people,
- 30:58Speaker 1: on the other hand, then it's not even a question.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Obviously, this should be banned.
- 31:04Speaker 1: But the government, for the most part, has been totally
- 31:06Speaker 1: powerless against this evil. The attitude seems to be that
- 31:10Speaker 1: AI exists and will do whatever it wants, and there's
- 31:15Speaker 1: nothing we can do to stop any of it. So
- 31:18Speaker 1: why even try? Now, obviously, there's plenty of AI alarmism
- 31:22Speaker 1: on the other side, and we've talked about that previously.
- 31:26Speaker 1: There are various factions that want to shut down AI
- 31:28Speaker 1: for political reasons or because it gets clicks or because
- 31:31Speaker 1: they're paid by China or whatever. But the AI defeatism,
- 31:35Speaker 1: the attitude that, well, we can't and shouldn't even try
- 31:38Speaker 1: to do anything to regulate AI at all, even in
- 31:42Speaker 1: these really extreme cases like AI child pornography, that is
- 31:46Speaker 1: just as extreme in the other direction. And it's kind
- 31:49Speaker 1: of hysterical in its own way, because it also seems
- 31:55Speaker 1: to say that AI is like this mystical, unstoppable force,
- 32:01Speaker 1: and we're utterly powerless in its grasp. There's nothing we
- 32:04Speaker 1: could do at all. No laws could have any effect.
- 32:10Speaker 1: I find that to also be hysterical. It's a technology.
- 32:15Speaker 2: That's what it is. It's not magic.
- 32:18Speaker 1: And so we don't need to treat it like evil sorcery,
- 32:20Speaker 1: but we also shouldn't treat it as some sort of
- 32:22Speaker 1: God that cannot be in any way controlled, and we
- 32:26Speaker 1: shouldn't even try. And also the idea that we can't
- 32:32Speaker 1: possibly regulate anything that takes place in the home or
- 32:35Speaker 1: even on public streets, again, is an extreme.
- 32:38Speaker 2: It's a kind of hysteria.
- 32:41Speaker 1: These are positions that on the surface appear to be pro-liberty, anti-authoritarian,
- 32:45Speaker 1: even patriotic, but in fact, You know, the idea that
- 32:49Speaker 1: we shouldn't regulate AI at all or anything like that.
- 32:51Speaker 1: But in fact, they are the antithesis of what the
- 32:54Speaker 1: founders and the Constitution stood for. They represent a breathtaking
- 32:57Speaker 1: miscalculation about the severity of the threats we face and
- 33:01Speaker 1: that our children face. No, we shouldn't give up any
- 33:04Speaker 1: essential liberty in exchange for temporary safety. Franklin was right
- 33:08Speaker 1: about that. But the right to possess AI child porn
- 33:11Speaker 1: on our computers is not an essential liberty. When we
- 33:15Speaker 1: deny that a civilized society necessarily involves trade-offs, when we
- 33:20Speaker 1: buy into Obama's tripe about false choices, then we invite
- 33:23Speaker 1: collapse at the civilizational level. Some lines need to be drawn.
- 33:29Speaker 1: And if we can't draw the line at this, then
- 33:32Speaker 1: we can't draw any line anywhere for any reason. As
- 33:36Speaker 1: the saying goes, our Constitution is not a suicide pact.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Before our children are made to endure any more of
- 33:42Speaker 1: these horrors that's incumbent on the courts, Stop pretending that
- 33:45Speaker 1: it is.
- 33:46Speaker 2: That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
- 33:58Speaker 2: But in all of my years of public life, I
- 34:01Speaker 2: have never profited from public service. I welcome this kind of.
- 34:05Speaker 1: Examination because people have got to know whether or not
- 34:08Speaker 1: their presidents are corrupt.
- 34:10Speaker 2: Well, I'm not a crook.
- 34:11Speaker 1: For more than five decades, from Iran-Contra to Monica Lewinsky
- 34:15Speaker 1: to Russiagate, every political scandal has been measured against one,
- 34:18Speaker 1: the Watergate affair.
- 34:20Speaker 2: But what if Richard Nixon was telling the truth? What
- 34:23Speaker 2: if Watergate isn't what it seems?
- 34:26Speaker 1: What if hundreds of thousands of pages of sworn testimony, memoirs,
- 34:29Speaker 1: and newly released government documents tell a different story than
- 34:33Speaker 1: the one you learned in school? In 1972, Nixon won
- 34:37Speaker 1: the biggest electoral landslide in modern American history with grand
- 34:41Speaker 1: plans to remake the federal government. Two years later, he
- 34:44Speaker 1: was out of office. You were taught that Nixon's men
- 34:47Speaker 1: broke into the Democratic National.
- 34:49Speaker 8: Committee headquarters to spy on his political opponents. You were
- 34:52Speaker 8: taught that when he found out, Nixon covered it up,
- 34:55Speaker 8: and that the cover-up was worse than the crime. You
- 34:59Speaker 8: were taught that two heroic Washington Post reporters, guided by
- 35:03Speaker 8: a righteous FBI whistleblower, brought the most powerful.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Man in the world to justice. But you were never
- 35:09Speaker 2: told what really happened.
- 35:11Speaker 8: I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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