> Photoshop is fine, running a business where you produce CSAM for people with photoshop is not. And this has been very clear for a while now.
What if Photoshop is provided as a web service? This is analogous to running image generation as a service. In both cases provider takes input from the user (in one case textual description, on the other case sequence of mouse events) and generates and image with an automated process, without specific human intentional input from the provider.
Note that in this case using them for producing CSAM was against terms of service, so the business was tricked to produce CSAM.
And there are other automated services that could be used for CSAM generation, for example automated photo booths. Should their operator be held liable if someone use them to produce CSAM?
If you really care, ask a lawyer, not a tech forum.
I anticipate there will already be case law/prescident showing the shape of what is allowed/forbidden, and most of us won't know the legal jargon necessary to understand the answer.
Or answers, plural, because laws vary by jurisdiction.
Most of us here are likely to be worse at painting such boundaries than an LLM. LLMs can pass at least one of the bar exams, most of us probably cannot.
What if Photoshop is provided as a web service? This is analogous to running image generation as a service. In both cases provider takes input from the user (in one case textual description, on the other case sequence of mouse events) and generates and image with an automated process, without specific human intentional input from the provider.
Note that in this case using them for producing CSAM was against terms of service, so the business was tricked to produce CSAM.
And there are other automated services that could be used for CSAM generation, for example automated photo booths. Should their operator be held liable if someone use them to produce CSAM?