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Citation needed? What subreddits? If you mean the tiny deepfakes subreddit I don't think anything there is involuntary.

In case it isn't clear, this isn't leaked videos or celebrities doing actual porn. It's synthetic renders similar to their faces based on publically available material. The celebrities aren't actually involved in any way. It isn't even really photos of them. It's an abstract model.

But surely you understood that? And in that case I don't get what you're saying.




Celebfakes (the first word in the comment you're replying to) is the subreddit.

Crtasm makes the rest of the point, which neither of us should need to explain.


Please could you provide a photo of your face?


There are photos of my face on my self-hosted website linked in my profile. There aren't hundreds of photos though because I'm not a famous public figure who trades privacy for money. Bit of a difference. Good luck regardless and send me the results.


If you're not voluntarily allowing your face to appear in a video, it is by definition involuntary.


That's true. But it's not involuntary porn of them because it's not really them. It's easy to see how it is different than a leaked video of an actual person if you think about it.

Unlike some authoritarian countries where people are jailed for using the public images of public figures in most of the world it's considered fair use or acceptable under parody. Especially if there's no money involved.

In any case it's not even the images themselves being redistributed. It's only features derived from public source material used to create derivative works.




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