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It's not inevitable. There are already powerful laws against this where I live, and I have no doubt that the EU will sharpen them additionally, too. It's already being discussed. Illicit AI copies of people can be treated pretty much the same as other counterfeit goods - physical goods get confiscated, servers are shut down, people who do it on a commercial scale get arrested, etc. The enforcement is not more complicated than what the movie and software industry has already been doing for decades. The video game industry has already set the precedents.

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.

>>jonath+(OP)
Lord.. that's like the exact opposite of the world I want to live in. More regulations, more controls on the internet. More tracking and DRM. All to protect the rich bastards and entrenched interest. Acting and voice acting have the potential to become dead professions. This is great. Embrace it and move on.

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.

>>contra+Pk2
> Lord.. that's like the exact opposite of the world I want to live in.

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?