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The digital camera is still several orders of magnitude slower and more expensive to operate than DALL-E or SD.

Side note: if you're a materialist, you should believe that psychological harm is physical harm. It's obvious that being able to publish images of someone doing things they themselves find reprehensible could cause lots of trauma.

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Well thankfully I'm not, but even if I were I think that's a bit of a stretch. A materialist acknowledging an effect he cannot quantify or directly observe is not much of a materialist.

I suppose that's fair.

My point was that if there's only matter, then mental / psychological harm must be in some sense physical harm.

(FWIW I lean not-materialist myself, but it's a common perspective around here so I thought it was worth pointing out)

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