… pedobear as a meme does actually significantly predate /pol/.

However…

A thing that a lot of people don’t seem to know is that 4chan exists because m00t / Chris Poole got banned from Something Awful for posting way way way too much hentai, including loli.

4chan exists primarily because m00t grabbed a number of his hentai/loli loving friends from SA, and made his own forum/board, with black jack and hookers.

TIL

Sorry to double post but this is potentially relevant:

So, yeah, the FBI maintains a large database of CSAM, for their… CSAM content ID style system.

People who know that that exists have occasionally pointed out that… that is kind of weird, lets just put it that way.

Well, I’ve just had a horrifying realization.

We currently have AI/LLM corpos on the record going to places like AnnasArchive to acquire their vast troves of data to use in training an LLM.

… If somebody hooks up this CSAM database… into an LLM… well, you now basically have a machine that produces CSAM, and likely also gore/torture videos.

… hooray …

You may have missed how there’s a massive CSAM problem with AI because the models are all trained on CSAM. “Plausible” is a bit behind the times.