Deepfake political scams, FB

Deepfakes displaying politicians and other public figures, clothed normally, have been used on Facebook to promote scams.

I think the crucial issue raised by deepfakes is not nudity. It is fraud. False nudity in the deepfake is one kind of fraud, but the other kinds of fraud are just as bad. I've called unauthorized deepfakes the moral equivalent of perjury.

Thus, rather than criminalizing making nude deepfakes only, I suggest we criminalize making and showing any sort of deepfake without the subject's permission.

If you want to show a fictional or satirical picture of a hypothetical action, you can express the idea just as well with an evidently non-evidential cartoon.