Oh my sweet summer child. Let's just say you aren't the first to think this.

It occurred to me yesterday that at some point someone will inevitably advocate for the banning of deep fake pornography in their country by creating a porno starring the politicians of their lower house. I reckon it’d be illegal within the week.

Such things already exist… they’re just not popular for obvious reasons.

What are the obvious reasons? I've heard "Fuck Trump" far more often than, say, "Fuck Kate Moss".

Because they’re not usually worthy of fantasy.

Interesting, but I wonder how this would be enforced. I wouldn't be surprised if over half these cases were people who live in entirely different countries. would another country extradite a citizen over this? This has "technically" been possible for centuries so I wonder if there's any case study surrounding this.

It is clear that the Unity devs spent much time modeling the bones, muscles, blood vessels, fat, and unique skin properties of the face. I would not be surprised if surgeons were consulted. Was this attention to detail given to other parts of the human body?

Even those parts?

Porn basically fuels the IT industry... since the 80's for sure. Since the days of Teletext and French Minitel.

Off topic, but I just love that this is the second time in as many days I read "Oh my sweet summer child" on HN.

Go catch up, there's probably gigabytes of SFM porn of every modestly popular game character you know.

A lot of people are working on it. They mainly live on Patreon. For VR, specifically. It’s the only feasible way to approach 6dof porn, currently, AFAIK.

I mean you could have hired a hyperrealist oil painter to paint porn characters 30 years ago but it is so much more work and expense compared to people.

I don't see how a game engine is much different for the foreseeable future. It is so far away from under cutting humans in this domain in terms of time and expense.

> I can imagine at a certain point, with enough realism and detail and control, game engines becoming a viable content creation tool for pornography.

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