Just to remind anyone who thinks AI generated child porn is okay or not as bad as "real" child porn or the same as animated child porn.
These models were trained on real images, every image these tools create are directly related to the rape of thousands or even tens of thousands of children.
Real or not these images came from real children that were raped in the worst ways imaginable
You are talking about technicalities.
For a model to be as good as possible you train on the most accurate data.
It is true that you can take SD, modify it to ignore moral values and then ask for CSAM but if you for example have a bunch of real CSAM and you train it on that data it would be much much better at generating believable CSAM. Which is what these criminals do...