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I think the main issue with transformer image generation in this respect is that not only can the image be explicit but also using it for this has an incredibly low effort cost and could photo-realistically depict a real living person and materially affect their life.

Whereas drawing applications have a natural barrier to achieving all of these together: time and skill.

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>Whereas drawing applications have a natural barrier to achieving all of these together: time and skill.

Not necessarily, at least when it comes to nudity. Bubbling (image editing 'technique') is trivial to do and gives that same illusion.

Out of context speech and bad frames from a video can also materially affect someone's life, but we've more or less accepted it as part of life.

That's the world being deliberately created though, one where a mediocre but completely believable song is a prompt away. The scope of the side effects are across the entirety of what has previously taken time and effort until now.

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