The defenders (mostly AI-art libertarians) argue yes. They say:
We aren’t watching a puppet. We are watching a that believes it is Taylor Swift.
This liminality makes legal prosecution difficult (no real person is depicted in an actual sex act) yet emotional harm undeniable.
At first, this seems like harmless surrealism. But the slope is slick. The Mondomonger’s hunger for novelty quickly escalates from "weird art" to "illegal simulation." Because once the AI understands "Taylor Swift" as a trainable dataset, it can place her into any genre—including pornography, political extremism, and defamation.
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