Re: Child ???
I thought the same thing when the article mentioned child pornography. You'd have to have some kiddy porn already to provide the body. Otherwise you just end up with a child's head on an adult's body, which really isn't going to work. I don't really think that's a valid concern with this program.
Revenge porn and blackmail are big problems though. And I would imagine that most celebrities would have a pretty big and legitimate problem with their faces being pasted into porn for people to get off on, though provided those videos were acknowledged as fakes I would view that as a lesser problem than videos made by disgruntled exes of "regular" people and passed off as real. It's still a problem, don't misunderstand. Those people have an absolute right to feel violated by such things and it shouldn't happen. But videos being passed off as real would be worse.
And, frankly, outside of Hollywood and film schools I fail to see any non-pornographic uses for this sort of software. Even in Hollywood I think it would be hard to legally justify using this rather than just hiring the actor unless they were dead or you needed a much younger version of them. I would think that any court in the land would rule that the actor in question would be entitled to compensation for using this to insert them in a movie. Film school students might - MIGHT - get a break right up until they try to distribute their videos on the grounds that a film school student is unlikely to be able to hire an A list actor to star in their class project.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
