CMV: Fake porn such as "deepfakes" is not immoral

\3. It's not a "solution" to just declare it immoral. Technology is ever improving, and faked imagery is only going to get more realistic and easy to produce. I'm sure last century there were people equally offended by faked porn that would to our eyes look ridiculously bad and unrealistic. Fakes are here to stay, and we need to adapt our sense of morality to reflect this reality. I believe this will happen and such images will get normalized sooner or later either way, but I think it would be in everyone's interest to just get it over with and make it sooner rather than later.

This is a bad argument.

It's not a "solution" to just declare it immoral.

I don't think anybody just decided all of a sudden that fakes are immoral. They just weren't realistic enough to make people care. For a long time, "fakes" in porn were obviously fake, so somebody probably isn't going to care as much as they do now, when somebody can make a fake that is so realistic that it can reasonably be confused as being real. Up until recently, if a fake porn image/video was made of someone, it was easy to identify. Now it isn't so easy, and it's only going to get harder. This will lead to people having their lives affected more seriously, if people think they've been in porn. I'm not saying people should be judged or face consequences for being in porn, because I don't think they should, but that's how society generally views participation in porn for now.

Technology is ever improving, and faked imagery is only going to get more realistic and easy to produce. I'm sure last century there were people equally offended by faked porn that would to our eyes look ridiculously bad and unrealistic.

None of this contributes anything to the idea that fakes are not immoral. It's vaguely true statements that hold no bearing on the actual argument, so this section is a red herring.

Fakes are here to stay, and we need to adapt our sense of morality to reflect this reality.

Why though? Why do we need to think something is okay just because we can't eliminate it? We can't eliminate murder, or rape, or theft, but we as a society have determined that those things, and many others we can't eliminate, are all immoral. Something being inevitable does not mean that society should just accept it as morally acceptable.

I believe this will happen and such images will get normalized sooner or later either way, but I think it would be in everyone's interest to just get it over with and make it sooner rather than later.

Why do you think it's going to be normalized to use someone else's image/likeness for pornographic material without their consent? The general trend now is making things like this illegal. Posting revenge porn, porn being filmed without the knowledge or consent one or more parties involved, etc are all either illegal already, quickly becoming illegal in most jurisdictions, and almost universally regarded as immoral by those who aren't personally perpetrating these acts. Why should this issue, which is very similar territory, buck the trend?

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