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> On a more positive side to this technology.

I'm not sure that making it easier to profit off of the likeness of others is a positive side. If it's legal for indie studios to do, it's legal for 20th Century Fox, Universal, and so forth.



It reduces cost to produce a specific good. I would think it would be measured similar to other technology advancements that do the same. Good for society, bad for the craftsman that were made obsolete, overall net positive.

This is purposefully not counting in the effect of being able to fake people and the damage that does to society, but I think that was implied by the previous poster specifying looking for the more positive side of the technology.


It’s not so obvious that it’s a net positive. Music for instance is way easier to get ahold of now, but we also don’t get to enjoy sophisticated long-form music as much, owing to how there’s no money in making it.




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