Beheading a boob? Out. Animal mutilation by a feral naked woman with a machete? Out.

I agree with the points you’re making, but I’d also like to put in my two cents as a victim of CSA and CSAM production. Not that it makes me an any sort of authority on it; I just wanted to share my opinion.

I don’t think fictional material should be considered the same as real footage. In real material there is a victim whereas (unless a person’s likeness is being used) there is none in fictional material. The reason CSAM is so horrible is because of the fact there is a victim, not because the material itself is disturbing (which it is, don’t get me wrong). I think that making them equal crimes is a huge disservice to the victims and downplays the crime that was committed against them, both socially and legally. In my experience a lot of people already oppose CSAM more so due to the material being graphic rather than the actual assault and continued violence against the victim by possessing/sharing footage of it.

The actual reasons are that the abuse of children should not be normalised

I don't think we should normalise torture, non-child abuse, exploitation, war, deception, genocide, manipulation, etc. either, but I don't give a crap if someone make a video of it.

I don't draw a line. If something 100% made up upsets you, nobody us putting your nose in it.

Your "they believe that it is damaging to society as a whole" comment is terrifying to me, because a lot of people in power believe that the mere existence of some people is "damaging to society as a whole".

drawn pornographic depcitions are generally legal and protected by the first amendment in the united states, even if the artist explicitly states the characters are minors.

For example, do you think CSAM should be legal as long as those in the material are fictional?

Yes. As long as the image is not created through raping somebody, it's morally okay, since no real person was violated.

And where do you draw the line?

Anything which requires violating somebody to be produced.

If that was true they'd be uncomfortable around CSAM.

Edit: Because THEY find it hot, not suggesting CSAM is hot. Goddamn. I'm going to hell.

Despite my wording it doesn't mean that you specifically should to produce such a video, it was more of a thought experiment. My take is that if such video were produced and published on any of Meta's platforms it would remain very little time online, unlike the mentioned roasted baby video FTA.

Research shows that consuming CSAM, even if it's artificial, may increase the likelihood of that person committing an act of abuse.

And where would the genAI get its training data from?

I mean, it would help satiate the pervert(who just wanna look), but it will not make the actual rapist(who want the action, for the lack of better word) to stop, and CSAM is provided by the latter. I don't see why using genAI CSAM to satiate the former would solve much of the issue, the former will just watch adult porn if there's no child porn. On the other hand it's not like there's a lack of loli hentai.