[bluGill]

Torrents are fine because there are legal purposes. Developers of torrent software are very careful to emphasize the legal uses.

[ronsor]

There are legal purposes for generative AI tools and even deepfakes, so there should be no issues with the tools themselves.

Obviously if a site promotes "download this tool to generate infinite nude pictures of celebrities", then that is illegal, since that particular tool was only developed for illegal uses.

[asadotzler]

There are legal purposes for cars and guns and we regulate the hell out of them because there are also plenty of not-legal purposes and even just the potential for accidents. When A.I. is as heavily regulated as cars, we can revisit the "it's just a tool" argument.

[ronsor]

We can revisit the argument when an image generation AI causes a fatal accident with 5 other vehicles.