[canucklady]

Your single counter example is "people do media piracy". I personally do torrent media, and I'm pretty clear eyed that I do it because there are no negative consequences for me. It has nothing to do with computers or victims. There's no enforcement. If ISPs started fining people or cutting off access for pirating media I would stop because those consequences are worse than the benefit I get.

Who benefits from making deepfakes, and how do we respond to them? By simply throwing our hands up in the air and upvoting you're encouraging this behaviour by normalizing it. If people recognize it as deception that violates consent it will be discouraged.

[smt88]

As I said in another comment, deepfakes benefit those who want to manipulate the public into believing someone did/said something that they didn't.

Do you really not see society-ending possibilities if every dictator or troll on earth had that power?

Sufficiently realistic deepfakes will erase trust in any and all recordings of people doing things, whether those things happened or not.

[twblalock]

I have not encouraged, upvoted, or defended this behavior in any way. Nor will I condemn it. I'm just telling you how the real world works.