[prepend]

Looking forward to seeing how this resolves.

I remember when deepfakes first was released there was a group who would deepfake coworkers, Facebook friends, etc for a really low cost (like $100) as long as the target had a few hundred public photos.

This is without consent as well, but it’s also not real. It seems like the equivalent of imagining people nude. Kind of creepy if I know it’s happening but not truly a violation of my privacy.

[hardlianotion]

It's blurry but I think in a way it is a violation of privacy in a similar way that other forms of harassment are.

It's not quite the equivalent of imagining people nude as there is an artefact that can potentially cause its own pain when distributed.

[prepend]

That’s a good point in that the distribution is different.

Maybe the better analogy for imagining nude would be to just make an image and not show it to anyone. So the issue is commercialization or distribution.

In the future when we have digital consciousnesses running on Google or Amazon or whatnot, will we be prevented from imagining people nude without their consent because the mind will be replicated across multiple availability zones?