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Because they may use it to generate sexual images? Kids have two ages: "Don't care about sex" and "care about sex". If they've gotten to the point where they care about sex, your AI image generator filter isn't going to put their hormones back in the box.

It's mystifying to me why American culture wants to insist that sexual urges must come the moment you're 21, and not a second earlier, otherwise you're somehow sinful.



18

21 is when they allow booze.


Well, the age of consent is 13-16, depending on state, but it doesn't affect the broader point.


and many states circumvent that in the judiciary, we have child marriage to undermine other concepts like pedophilia, statutory rape here just like in developing nations

its actually quite rampant, possibly more in absolute numbers than the countries we think about, we just chose not to focus media or civil rights attention on it

https://19thnews.org/2023/07/explaining-child-marriage-laws-...

https://www.cfr.org/blog/its-time-end-child-marriage-united-...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/09/cassie-lev...

pick whichever source you respect more, I’m not that invested




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