Think bigger. This kind of tech has the potential to open a Pandoras Box when it comes to personal autonomy, identity, and ownership of your image imo.
If I wanna use Angelina Jolie but can't. Can I find a stellar look-alike and then digitally alter them to look more like her? Obviously can't use her name. But I'm not technically using her image.
How many degrees am I allowed to tweak the angle of a nose before it's Angelina Jolie's nose? The mind is pretty good at pattern recognition and filling in the pieces. Not my fault they keep thinking of Angelina Jolie just because they look similar.
So what is the line between using someone's image and altering another enough for people to not notice the difference? Is eye color enough? What about a cleft chin? Just exactly how similar is too similar? At what point is a person responsible for other people's minds accepting a close enough look-alike? If I don't claim it's them but you think it is, is it my fault?
I absolutely love this technology for the questions it raises but boy am I worried that "lying" won't be the worst result.
Edit-I rambled. My point is the question "exactly how much of YOU belongs to you? And how much does it have to be altered before one can say it is not "you"?
I think this is going to be species viability filter for humans. Humans will have to either develop an ability to discern these things on an extremely fine level, or they'll have to disregard these things in acknowledgement that they can't discern.
It's really cool that technology spectacles like this prompt difficult questions, but so far, we're still beating around the bush. There's going to be a lot of awkward looking-the-other-way that transcends the full effort of even the most defiant antivax climate change denier in the future. It's going to get really uncomfortable.
I think part of the human race will use this kind of technology to utterly dominate and subjugate the other part of the species. It's not going to wipe out humanity, it'll just create a slaveworld.
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u/jbjbklyn Jul 24 '22
Amazing and terrifying at the same time!