Indeed, if one were to post a AI video of someone saying some racial slur or otherwise verboten language, sure it won't get them killed, but given how unemployeable and pariah they would be, that would be a death by a thousand cuts.

But Blasphemy by whatever means, is one of the tools by which society sets certain boundries, and it's really hard to move away from a model that worked so 'well' for us since the first civiliations.