Deepfakes and Sexual Fantasies:
Are they both impermissible?
"In his paper ‘Introducing the Pervert’s Dilemma’, Carl Öhman does this for deepfake pornography. In essence, he suggests that if we think the creation of deepfake pornography is morally impermissible, then we should also question the permissibility of generic sexual fantasies."
By John Danaher
https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2020/11/deepfakes-and-sexual-fantasies-are-they.html
Paper:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-019-09522-1
@corlin I think that Öhman is making a disingenuous argument here. A private, non-sharable deep fake video loses all qualities that make it distinct from a generic sexual fantasy. That may be their point, but that also means we're not (as the article acknowledges) talking about actual deep fakes anymore, but fantasy technology that (from the perspective of my own expertise) is fundamentally impossible.
I more or less hold the same position of the author of this article.