The UK government is not cracking down on AI porn generally but has started to crack down on the distribution of certain things, like:

- AI generated CSAM (out of a concern that it might cause people to seek to produce actual CSAM)

- AI generated rape and abuse images of real adults, again out of concern it will cause violence and its distribution is actually degrading and is experienced as and combined with threatening behaviour

- some extreme AI generated rape/abuse images of non-real people.

Despite what internet libertarians say, there is evidence to suggest that porn is changing people's sexual behaviours, particularly young people, both for good and ill.

At the moment there is no good reason to believe that AI-generated alternatives to harmful content are meaningfully less harmful to society.

There's more than enough evidence in articles posted on HN alone that people are beginning to experience psychosis brought on by spending too much time with AI content.

I don't really care if governments ban it; I'd like to see governments being much braver about criminalising AI generated misrepresentation, AI generated hoax content etc.

Sane governments should IMO absolutely ignore the ultra-libertarian angles; there is at least no reason that AI-generated content should be treated any differently under existing obscenity laws just because there are no real people in it.

Good luck cracking down when local inference gets cheap.