If people are exposed to stimuli, they will pursue 
    increasingly stimulating versions of it.

This is not true in any kind of universal way.

If you enjoy car chases in movies, does that mean you're going to require more and more intense chase scenes, and then consume real-life crash footage, and ultimately progress to doing your own daredevil driving stunts in real life?

No, because at some point it's "enough."

Same with... literally anything we enjoy. Did you enjoy your lunch? Did you compulsively feel the need to work up to crazier and crazier lunches?

What about sex? Have you had sex? Do you feel the need to seek out crazier and crazier versions of it?

> If people are exposed to stimuli, they will pursue increasingly stimulating versions of it. I.e., if they see artificial CP, they will often begin to become desensitized (habituated) and pursue real CP or even live children thereafter.

I have accumulated tens of thousands of headshots in video games but have yet to ever shoot a single real person in the face. More importantly, I have never had the urge to seek out same.

I am not sure that your initial premise has any truth to it.

I'm not sure I agree with the statement, you're putting forth a lot of assertions without the actual quantitative data to back up what you're saying, and even though you think it sounds intuitive that doesn't necessarily make it valid.

I'd actually argue the reverse, I think you see a lot more effort towards acquiring things that are illegal than you would otherwise.

Wow I didn't even think of this, that people could use this for something so horrifying. I'm relived that the geniuses behind this seem so smart that they even thought of this too and prohibit using the AI for sexual images.

> Our content policy does not allow users to generate violent, adult, or political content, among other categories. We won’t generate images if our filters identify text prompts and image uploads that may violate our policies. We also have automated and human monitoring systems to guard against misuse.

Nonsense, I think the opposite is true where if you can satisfy your urges in a way that doesn’t put you in jail for a decade, most people will take that route.