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The criminal offence refers to deepfakes of a real person without their consent. Actual people can be identified in this AI generated content, where the resemblance is close / beyond doubt.

---- The harm:

Many people do not seem to understand the harm. Deepfakes are used for sexual pleasure, and used to degrade and dehumanize people resulting in victims getting traumatised. Victims often do not get enough support and the trauma may stay for a lifetime, and some victims may end their lives due to this.

These victims get sexually harassed, e.g. one woman is continuously being harassed after someone generated deepfakes of her and people recognised her from those images https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1c1pzjo/ai_gen...

In r/singularity thread this is discussed and unfortunately many people think it's okay. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1c5c8pp/uk_cri...

---- Thoughtcrime:

It is worth to discuss the 'thoughtcrime' where the generated content is not shared and where the deepfaked person is not harassed. Quote from the article:

> The creation of a deepfake image will be an offence regardless of whether the creator intended to share it [..]

• Revenge Porn does not make it illegal to store pornographic content as long as there was consent. However, Revenge Porn prohibits sharing no longer consensual content.

• Sharing the generated content is not necessary in order to degrade, dehumanize and harass victims, thus still cause harm. On the other hand, if the deepfaked people are not harmed then it is a bit different, which may seem like a "thoughtcrime" and possibly may be.

• People cannot guarantee the data they store won't get leaked. Both Revenge Porn and Deepfakes have the same issue. However, in Revenge Porn it is easier to see who created the content and enforce the law, while in deepfakes harder.