Treating this as an example of a question we'll have to deal with more... In this example, I initially thought that the 2 fake images of monks I saw were cool

Treating this as an example of a question we'll have to deal with more... In this example, I initially thought that the 2 fake images of monks I saw were cool and humorous. But then I learned that the portrayal actually bothered those people, which took much of the fun out of it. So probably I either wouldn't make images like those of monks, or if I did for some private amusement, I wouldn't distribute them. Other people, once they're aware that it's upsetting, might also decide not to do it. We collectively already have various values about rudeness and being considerate. These values will come into play more with AI-generated fake images/videos/audio/etc. and with the Internet to distribute them globally. What I think is going to complicate this is both: 1. Being widely connected by Internet, across many cultural groups, means that behaving with goodwill is harder, because there's a lot more things to know about, than just the conventions of our city. 2. Recent "Internet culture" has had a lot of sociopathic behavior in general (e.g., many Twitter behaviors), plus the relative minority of influencers often get status through sociopathic behavior. So we aren't surrounded by conspicuous examples of good behavior that would help intuition for what's good and bad. Relative to how we see ourselves, or how we aspire to be. (Though we do have fashionable mimicking and posturing, which right now is used as weapons in toxic behavior, and often without much apparent thinking. So, for example, we might see ourselves as helping those in need of help, which I think is very admirable. But the Twitter behavior we see as examples is mostly about scorched-earth attacking any peep from anyone that sounds like an idea we've been told is one of the officially bad talking points. Without individually thinking about it beyond that -- neither about what is good or bad, nor about how we respond to it, mostly just mimicking fashion we observe. This not only makes for a toxic environment that's vulnerable to manipulation/co-opting, but can make it harder to respond according to our believed values when presented with a new situation. Like the many implications of what will happen when every schoolchild can make and distribute deepfakes of anyone.)