A South Korean man has been sentenced to jail for using artificial intelligence to generate exploitative images of children, the first case of its kind in the country as courts around the world encounter the use of new technologies in creating abusive sexual content.
Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder.
Sexually abusing a child is a terrible crime.
Lots of pedophiles will never touch a child. Alternatively, some people who are not pedophiles will sexually assault children (sometimes, it can be just a power dynamic thing for example).
I think you are confusing the terms. Nobody here is defending people who assault children.
Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder. Sexually abusing a child is a terrible crime.
Lots of pedophiles will never touch a child. Alternatively, some people who are not pedophiles will sexually assault children (sometimes, it can be just a power dynamic thing for example).
I think you are confusing the terms. Nobody here is defending people who assault children.