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The pioneer of DeepFakes... "Anthony Comstock—the anti-obscenity crusader after whom the 1873 Comstock Act is named—had arrested an amateur photographer for selling manually photoshopped pictures that placed “the heads of innocent women on the undraped bodies of other females.” "

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That's genuinely creative. I mean the execution, not the act itself. Imagine spending hours in a darkroom to create passable smut and knowing there's a market for that. I guess it's true that any new tech will have one of its first applications dedicated to tickling our monkey brains

Some things you can count on to never change and always be new again.

I wonder if anybody's found any ancient sculptures where one kind of bust was swapped onto another, er, another kind of bust. :p

Or further back: "Zog, why you paint other head on cave-wall of fertility goddess!?"

Ancient Roman statues were designed so the heads could be detached and switched, for eg when there was a new emperor on the throne.

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