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> I have 20 friends who use such tools

Wait, do you have 20 friends that ran StyleGAN2 for a couple of hours to generate human faces? Can't they just avoid uploading a profile picture?

When I used Facebook my avatar was an anime and my name was an obvious joke. I didn't need to simulate a natural person identity.

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One of these friends works somewhere Edward S worked. A building with guards and guns.

You tell me.

How is that relevant? Why would working for a military contractor with guards and guns mean you should use an image from thispersondoesnotexist.com instead of an anime picture? Especially when your 100 friends also use an image from thispersondoesnotexist.com , drawing attention to a weird group of people who then all become admins of the same groups.

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