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by nebulousthree 1212 days ago
If McDonald's required showing your driver's license to pick up your order, would it be a felony to show a fake license and pick up an order? You're not lying to a government organisation. You're just obscuring your identity to a private corporation. I fail to see how that can be any more than unethical.
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Showing a false driver's license in the U.S. is usually a crime (though not often a felony by itself) regardless of circumstance; e.g. Texas law: https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._transp._code_section_...

Note that a "Class A misdeamenor" in Texas is punishable by a $4,000 fine and/or 1 year in jail.

Is that going to happen because you used it to pick up a food order? Probably not, but stranger things have happened...

No it would not. And it would not be a felony to show one to Facebook either. But the question was about generating new IDs with AI. That is a felony.