Police investigation remains open. The photo of one of the minors included a fly; that is the logo of Clothoff, the application that is presumably being used to create the images, which promotes its services with the slogan: “Undress anybody with our free service!”
Considering I’m not even a US resident, your government and laws cannot touch me, that’s how irrelevant your knee-jerk reactions are.
Do you think China, India, or even members of the EU will stop developing AI because one country said so? Your expectations are highly unrealistic.
Other countries can ban you, too.
And I do think the EU is more likely even than us to ban you, or at least heavily regulate you.
You’re living in a dream world if you think you can steal everyone else’s artwork en masse, use it to generate art for you and think you can get away with it. It’s going to happen. You’re going to get banned.
I’m fine making art on my own, without AI, but thanks for your concern.