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Re:Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community by probably_wrong on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:34PM (#31727863)
I'll be the optimistic one (famous last words) and say that this apocalyptic scenario won't happen.

I am old enough to remember the times when "photoshopped" became a verb, and yet I don't remember a "Photoshop epidemic" where people blackmailed other people with production-quality fake pictures. I mean sure, it happened, but not at a major scale.

If the past is any indication we will indeed have deepfakes of personal connections, but their quality will rank from "bad" to "okay", and that will be it.

Re:Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community by riversflow on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:54PM (#31728177)
I had to deal with 2 separate fake facebook accounts that used photoshopped images of me during HS (>10 years ago). The fake accounts both had way way more friends than me, posted more frequently, were utterly humiliating and embarrassing. Throughout high school I had a bad reputation that proceeded me, it made making friends extremely difficult, and on top of a few other confounding factors made my HS experience so bad I basically gave up. I never found out who was behind the accounts.

I remember at the time this was a pretty common thing, in high schools, so perhaps you just managed to avoid it.