#unpopularOpinion, but I'm going to say "no".

Who is being harmed by deepfake anything?

I can see an argument that DISTRIBUTING such a thing causes harm (to the reputation of anyone recognisably depicted in a deepfake.

And I strongly agree that producing NEW training material involves harm.

But #victimless crimes are bullshit.

Always.

A Qu'ran does not feel pain when burned or blasphemed.

Trafficking woollens across state boundaries does not leave anyone unclothed.

Pixels on a screen are not traumatised by sex.

Anthropomorphising pixels on a screen is something our brains are primed for, but this human weakness has no moral or philosophical weight.

Lamentably, sufficient CSAM material exists already in police evidence lockers to train any number of Diffusion models.

This could produce any amount of "child abuser Methadone" without harming or wronging any real person.