[kefka_p]

First let me thank you for a thoughtful riposte! I do appreciate that. My question was an honest one and I imagine, not the easiest to conceive an answer to. I genuinely appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts.

With that said almost every use-case cited was financial or monetary gain whereas I enquired about social utility and value.

That dishonesty ie creation of a fake avatar is cited as being of social utility strikes me as a reach. I don’t see how adding more dishonesty and facades to the world adds social value, but then I may just be of limited imagination.

[nyanpasu64]

I would appreciate being able to morph my appearance and voice on video calls, into something more reflective of my identity (facial structure, hair color, cat ears) than the body I was provided by circumstances.

[pjc50]

> every use-case cited was financial or monetary gain whereas I enquired about social utility and value.

Oh, right. I think the unfortunate answer is that nobody cares about that distinction any more and only about the former.

[UncleEntity]

> With that said almost every use-case cited was financial or monetary gain whereas I enquired about social utility and value.

It could allow people to petition their government [0] without having someone bust down their door at 3am and disappear forever.

[0] Which is apparently important enough to have been included in the bill of rights

[lonelyasacloud]

> It could allow people to petition their government [0] without having someone bust down their door at 3am and disappear forever.

Surely just wearing a mask - virtual or otherwise - does the job without the deep fakery?

[UncleEntity]

No doubt, but they wanted a non-capitalistic reason why this technology isn’t The Debil.

And having subtle clues from watching a person’s face while they’re proposing whatever action to overthrow the patriarchy is more convincing than some random person wearing a Guy Fawkes mask talking about revolution for the umpteenth time.

[kefka_p]

Whoa, whoa, I never claimed the technology was the “debil”. I merely asked for examples of viable, moral, unique uses of this tech.