# Was an AI Image Generator Taken Down for Making Child Porn?

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/was-an-ai-image-generator-taken-down-for-making-child-porn/
- Published: 2024-09-05T09:15:59-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image credit: Mike Kemp / Getty Images. Article by David Evan Harris and Dave Willner. IEEE Spectrum – August 30, 2024. Why are AI companies valued in the millions and billions of dollars creating and distributing tools that can make AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM)? An image generator called Stable Diffusion version 1.5, which was created by the AI company Runway with funding from Stability AI, has been […] Click here to view original web page at spectrum.ieee.org