The problem with deepfakes

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It might surprise you to know that you don't own your own image.  How you look, is not legally protected.  The way the paparazzi make their money is by taking photos of others often without their consent.  Legally, there is little people can do to stop this and there are only very narrowly defined laws to stop it.  In general, in the United States at least, the highest law (the US Constitution) says that a persons right to free speech should be preserved at most any cost.

 That brings us to new technology.  A reddit user named DeepFake started uploading hyper-realistic porn with famous faces on different bodies.  The technology used was modified in to an app that now let's anyone with even a moderately powerful system create images and movies with the face of one person on the body of another.  The implications outside of creating fake porn are enormous.  First, what if the fake porn was no some famous actor or actress but rather your daughter who is just one of the girls on the cheer-leading squad?  Is it child porn if the 16 year old is morphed on the body of an obvious 40 year old?  What about your photo on the body of someone robbing a bank?  Your wife with another man?  An operative meeting with a ranking official of an enemy state?  If your mind goes down that rabbit hole, where can the negative possibilities end?

More reading:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16945494/deepfakes-porn-face-swap-legal
http://www.newsweek.com/deepfakes-fake-app-reddit-pornography-792053
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev5eba/ai-fake-porn-of-friends-deepfakes

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