The real consequences of fake porn and news

There is a movement underway to ban involuntary pornography, videos that use machine learning libraries like TensorFlow to superimpose faces of unwilling participants onto porn actors' bodies. Yesterday as TC's Taylor Hatmaker noted, Reddit published a content policy banning such images and video, while also shutting down a series of subreddits devoted to the practice. Pornhub and other social media sites have similarly published such policies in recent weeks. Porn, though, is merely the harbinger of a world of involuntary, fake content. Earlier this week, political scientist Henry J. Farrell and Nixonland author Rick Perlstein wrote a column in the New York Times titled, "Our Hackable Political Future."