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Today, beyond deep fakes, how AI is being used by Peter Files online.

The Magisterial New Novel from Richard Powers.

She had the ocean, and the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement,

all her panic and pain and love into a place far larger than anything human.

Playground by Richard Powers, long listed for the Booker Prize.

Out now in Hardback, e-book and audiobook. A warning before we start today's episode discusses child abuse and contains

explicit language.

This program which is what I've used to create these images. This is the voice of a 27 year old man called Hugh Nelson.

I've probably been doing it for about two years now and I can probably say that they've got worse in nature as I've continued with them.

Nelson is being interviewed by officers from Greater Manchester Police.

It's sick how... officers from Greater Manchester Police.

It's sick how much it affects your mind, especially when you have no job.

You sit at home, you play games, you watch porn and you make stupid gut-down images.

These goddamn images were of children.

They can just be images of them posing, fully clothed, to hardcore rape images, images, so everything.

It's been a crime to making decent images of children for decades.

But what made Nelson's crime novel was that the children in his images were AI generated.

He used normal photographs of real children and transformed them into hyper-realistic, bespoke so-called

characters which he could manipulate to order. He knew what he was doing was wrong.

I am. what he was doing was wrong.

I am sexually attracted to some kids.

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