On the flipside, this gives anyone basic plausible deniability.
No baby, that homemade porn video on my phone wasn't me! I just used a program to stick my face on something I found on the internet.
No baby, that homemade porn video on my phone wasn't me! I just used a program to stick my face on something I found on the internet.
If you think anyone is going to accept that a video is fake, even if it is, then you're woefully naive.
On the other hand, video of an intimate partner may have enough behavioral cues so fakes aren't much of an issue, unless the attacker has started with video surveillance of the target.
Hopefully, since it can't be stopped, it becomes so routinely used against so many people that everyone stops caring any more if it's real or fake.
It's sad that our attitudes (if not behaviour) towards sex are still so fucked up and judgemental thanks to thousands of years of religious/Victorian/puritanical brainwashing and guilt-tripping.
> It isn’t difficult to imagine an amateur programmer running their own algorithm to create a sex tape of someone they want to harass.
If it's trivial to fake a porn video with anyone's face on it, then the burden of proof is on the harasser to demonstrate how this one's real.
Or you can take said video and put some famous people's face on it as a response.
Also, the source video probably existed before and was more or less publicly available, which is proof that the version with your face is the fake one.
(And if you're facing an enemy that has enough ressources to shoot a specially-made porn video just to smite you, you have bigger problems to worry about).
While there may be a barrier to applying the technology after the fact, shooting a homemade video is something that can be accomplished by anyone with a modern smart phone.
In fact, if you want your fake porn to look authentic (for purposes of blackmail or otherwise), this is how you would do it. Then it could be claimed that it was self shot and leaked to the internet via a cloud “hack” or similar.
Of course, people who would both make such a video and also lie to their SO about it tend to seek out gullible easy marks who buy their BS. But sometimes such people get wise to it at some point.
It's enough to say publicly "X molested me 20years ago" to destroy a person. No proof or witness needed.