[Silasdev]

It's inevitable. We are in a normalization phase right now. Soon, kids will just shrug at stuff like that, because they will all know it's likely fake and therefore not care much about it.

However, I feel really bad for those who has to be the ones to go through the pain of this phase though.

[incompatible]

Sure, it's fake, it's really nothing more than an automated artistic impression. It could always have been done by a human artist, but most people wouldn't have the skills. It's not much different to using an image editor to stick a person's head onto somebody else's body, which is so old that it's "normalized" and no longer of much interest.

[knodi123]

> no longer of much interest

Except, of course, it's of huge interest to the target. No different than before.

[solardev]

We're probably, what, a year or two away from oversaturation and normalization?

It kinda seems like we're just hurtling towards a banal dystopia, where everything is hyper-real and everyone is just desensitized anyway. People on the subway just sit there, wearing their AR goggles and undressing everyone else, with their apps' horniness sliders turned up to max and porn sounds leaking out of shitty headphones. That guy across from you is whacking off again, just like last week, and you just groan, walk to the next train, and catch up on that show.

Your kid is called into the principal's office again. The bully posted nudes, so your kid posted even more nudes, with the bully and the principal doing things that someone with your lower-body flexibility never thought possible. You didn't even know that was a fetish. But ugh, not this talk again. Between the faux outrage and the condescending morality talk, they've heard it all a thousand times. It's not like the adults can do anything about it anyway. Can we go home now? This is more embarrassing than the pictures themselves.

[verisimi]

I hope, at the end of all that, people start to consider what really matters. Which has only ever been 'local' - being right with oneself, and trying to do right with one's lived, 3d reality. Seeing technology as a tool to help, not as means of controlling others through endless distracting.

Ie, it is for the individual to reject that which is incoherent with the reality that they themselves are. One doesn't have to watch porn, one doesn't have to immerse oneself in the nonsense. Each of us has free will - one doesn't need to choose immoral nonsense, regardless of what the screens say.