Regardless of what me and you think this just seems inevitable and we're all just going to have to get used to it. Just like you can't stop people from drawing and painting other people - you won't be able to stop people from using AI to render their image/voice. It's all getting cheaper and more accessibly
I mean, honestly, I think it's kind of bizarre that you think a Chinese movie maker could make a film with a digitally cloned Tom Cruise in it and get away with it. Maybe in China, but not in the rest of the world.
It just goes against the whole cyberpunk future we grow up dreaming about. Against the A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace and all that. I think in the end the bureaucrats won't win though. It just slows down the inevitable.
As always it'll probably start with porn. There will be porn of everyone and it'll be shared. Then that will become normalized. Then it'll spread into other more socially acceptable areas. Maybe first under the guise of "parody" and then it'll just become normal. Just how streaming and pirating has made music sales irrelevant. Now musicians make money with concerts.. and somehow the famous ones are still filthy rich. Didn't seem to hurt them one bit.
I'm sure the Tom Cruises of the future can still go to conventions and give speeches at private events.
So the world you want to live in is a Neuromancer dystopia, check.
> All to protect the rich bastards and entrenched interest.
Yeah, because that's not at all what the "AI" tech bros you want to protect are, right?