> Will you be a little outraged though when they use real women without their consent?
It's a complicated issue that I've considered many times before. If we deem deepfake pornography unethical because it creates images/videos that look like real people, what does this mean for "lookalike" pornography, featuring actors done up (or who just naturally look) like famous people?
For example:
Let's say Person A has a friend, Person B, who looks like Person C. Person B consents to Person A using artificial intelligence to generate pornographic images of them, which in turn look like pornographic images of Person C. Should Person A need consent from Person C?
Is it really that complicated? I'm not sure the slippery slope towards a potential future with too-generic porn faces is really all that convincing against the very real and ongoing mass distribution of a nascent, poorly regulated (or even understood) medium that features torrential quantities of--let's not mince words--sexual exploitation.
Engaging with sexual exploitation includes its consumption, and it absolutely includes its creation. I don't have any problems with content, generated or otherwise, that includes informed consent from all models involved. But that's not what's being described in this article. They are specifically talking about photorealistic imagery generated using the likeness of individuals who did not knowingly consent to such depictions.
It's a complicated issue that I've considered many times before. If we deem deepfake pornography unethical because it creates images/videos that look like real people, what does this mean for "lookalike" pornography, featuring actors done up (or who just naturally look) like famous people?
For example: Let's say Person A has a friend, Person B, who looks like Person C. Person B consents to Person A using artificial intelligence to generate pornographic images of them, which in turn look like pornographic images of Person C. Should Person A need consent from Person C?