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I suspect with the next generation or two of hardware that all debate or legislation or rules surrounding any of this will become kind of moot when you can take any porn video and deepfake it to portray whoever you want in real-time on your local machine.

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I trust a important part of this debate is revenge porn. the uploader just want to destroy the life of their ex-partner

Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie "The Running Man" predicted exactly this back in 1986. Most of its other predictions have also come true already, or are getting very close.

It's based on a novel by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bateman).

In the original ending the hero crashes a jet plane into a skyscraper to get revenge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(novel)

edit: ooh, didn't know Edgar Wright was doing a reboot. That would be interesting.

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