Unfortunately Anything that can go wrong will go wrong

Photoshop is a skill, not very widespread as we assume.

Typing something is literally at everyone's fingertips.

Photoshop is a skill possessed by more than enough people for the world to have already been transformed by Photoshops of famous people and anybody else graphic designers wanted to embarrass, if moderately-convincing images were that transformational a technology for adversarial use.

I agree that it's much easier to do low effort stuff to wind friends up, but universal access and low effort don't make it more likely to be impactful and believable.

That's what I was thinking. Whether a pornographic picture of me and a gorilla was made by photoshop or AI is irrelevant. People's reactions will be the same, and repercussions will be mostly the same (which doesn't means there will be consequences).

If someone really wants to hurt you, not having AI isn't going to stop them.

The real effect will be that you can publish a real picture of you fucking a gorilla and nobody would believe it because it's trivial to generate it with an AI.

> seriously this is the thing you fear? fake porn?

I'm being polite. Things will be so much worse.

Someone will make child pornography using your child's face as the input. Someone is going to take private videos of politicians and then edit them to have them say incriminating things. Someone is going to short the stock of a large company, then release a faked video of the CEO being shot, and profit from the immediate stock plunge.

And this is just what my mind can come up with. Imagine what 4chan will invent.