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Well, considering what JUST happened with all the AI generated images of Taylor Swift, it does make some sense.

Face swaps for images can be done with Photoshop within seconds. AI restrictions won't stop those and swapping faces in images existed for decades already.

Not really accurate. To do a good face swap, I have to find a photo of the victim and a photo of the "scenario" that line up pretty well to start with. That search can take minutes, hours, or for less famous people, even months.

Then, in PS with those two photos, i can do a cut an paste and some cloning and get a reasonable output in maybe an hour or two.

So, days to months v. literally 20 seconds.

Now say I want a 100 of those deepfakes to bomb twitter with. Now we're talking about a months to years long effort compared to an afternoon.

Your eliding the effects of speed and scale here are familiar. I've been seeing young people make this mistake on HN for about 15 years.

Face swapping takes seconds with photoshop not months. There is an unlimited number of movies and from any angle, I can take a snapshot, flip the faces, stretch. It is not difficult just give it a try. It takes no more than a minute.

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