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opinion - deepfakes are a trite matter
the following is intended neither as a defense nor indictment of pornography, generally, nor as a defense nor indictment of deepfake pornography made exclusively for personal use (i.e. undistributed); i consider deepfakes derived from images of actual persons, which are subsequently distributed without the consent of said persons... difficult to defend, and am not presently of a mind to essay such:
regarding deepfake pornography:
if deepfake porn is so easy to accomplish, couldn't one of the defense ideations a mentally stalwart society favor (and adopt) be something like "everyone's in a porn video now (somewhere in now or soon-to-come cyberspace), and has conceivably already fkd every person possible to fk; therefore, the fact of any given participation example is fully non-interesting and easily ignored"
perhaps even more pertinent, since AI may easily create admixtures of two (or more) faces, a nearly infinite number of "near hits", regarding the similarity of such an