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I'm of two minds. First, I'm not even the kind of person that is included in the snide "Men are imagining all the hot women around them naked anyways" camp, I don't know if I'm just not as much of a horn dog as other men or if it's a weird preference thing but it just never occurs to me to imagine people I see in the real world naked. So if I typical mind other men I have some sympathy to the kind of gross feeling people have about this and am not very sympathetic to the idea that men are entitled to this specifically.
On the other hand I feel like this is of the type of objection that "think of the children" always pattern matches to me. I would quite like the future where I can conjure up ai companions, maybe modeled after real people and I'd like those ai companions to not have little experience blocks like nudity to interrupt the immersion of them being real. And the no nudity bit is just the foot in the door. First it's heavily clamping down what companions modeled after real people, then it's any companion with a likeness to real people and eventually it's nude ai companions is rape to real women actually. I'd like to cut this off at the source. We're going to have to get over the fact that images, videos, audio and any other type of media are going to get very easy to fake very soon, the cost to stop this future is very steep and probably can't even be sustained long term in a global marketplace. So lets think a little bit more about where to cleave the reality we are soon going to find ourselves in at the joints instead of just having out future depend on what order the objectionable bits come into play.
And I think the reasonable border is something like attempting to actually pass a piece of fabricated media off as real is illegal and wrong, and creating one clearly marked fabricated is ok even if the motivations and methods are open to critique.
As for why I think the AI angle is important, it's because in actual use these things are going to be creating companions based on reference to other people. If I want a companion to narrate some stories I may ask for one with a voice like Morgan Freedman or some other reference point that is going to attempt to imitate someone. You already see it in all the different generation models we've seen. "Write an essay like scott alexander, paint this scene like Picasso, Read this text like norm" it's inevitable that soon deep fakes will only be made by AI and to make AI unable to do this would cripple AI.
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