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We all have the ability to infer and then "imagine" the results.

• AlecSchueler 4y ago
  But we don't all have the ability to render our imaginations as photorealistic jpegs
  • autoexec 4y ago
    What harm would it cause if we did? If I could imagine you naked and produce a JPG of my fantasy it would still only be fantasy. It doesn't matter if I'm making JPGs, cutting your head out of photos and gluing them to catalogue models, or if I've got a supercomputer making deepfakes. It's still just fantasy... speculative fiction.
    • AlecSchueler 4y ago
      It becomes reified and it can enter the public consciousness tutti dissemination. I can fantasise about an intergalactic space war, and I can even make a screen play and produce Star Wars. If i make the movie or not it's still fantasy, still something I just imagined. But making a representation of it and distributing it vastly alters the power it has to affect public consciousness. Fantasy doesn't equate to harmlessness.