Non-consensual deepfake videos, that humiliate and demean women, are racking up millions of views on mainstream porn sites. Nothing is being done about them

I’m uncertain if deepfake porn should be banned; it’s already difficult to enforce copyright on the internet, because it’ll just get redistributed.

Similarly, it would be impossible to enforce restrictions on deepfake porn; because it can easily be redistributed.

  • electrodynamica
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    3 years ago

    You realize people are born naked, right? The whole concept that someone being seen “uncovered” is somehow sexual, or that the act of uncovering is somehow a sexual invitation is itself rape culture.

    Just as much as men should be allowed to wear dresses, and women wear pants, people should be able to remain or become naked and not have it mean anything.

    Of course self-determination is implicit here. So what of deepfakes then, where a man is say photoshopped into a dress? Does that mean his rights have been violated, because people might believe that he intended to present himself that way to the world? I say no.

    People try to picture random people they come across in public naked all the time. So what if they were a great artist and could draw or paint a hyper realistic representation of what they imagine? What if one day we have the technology to pull an image from someone’s mind? Is this person now committing a thought crime? Does it only become a crime when it is shared with another person?

    TLDR people need to be less repressed, not more. Repression is what gets us to crazy accusations of thought crimes and abuse-by-proxy.