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Plausible deniability doesn't really work in real life though. Very few people are going to give you, or anyone accused of an indiscretion, the benefit of the doubt on the basis that a video might have been faked with AI. That is much less plausible than someone cheating and getting caught.

If you think anyone is going to accept that a video is fake, even if it is, then you're woefully naive.

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That's true right now because video fakes are new and rare. Photoshop fakes have been around for years, and now when there's an apparent nude photo of someone famous, people generally assume it's fake unless there's a particular reason to believe it's real, such as a publicized hack.

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.

Doubt could be made if you kept a video of yourself with Arnold Schwarzenegger's body in the same place as that video.

As someone with a generally cynical/pessimistic outlook I too, like blunte, want to see something positive in this.

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.

Western sexual revolution can be said to have happened little more than 50 years ago. Culture takes a lot of time to revert.

There’s an episode of Downton Abbey where it goes the other way.

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