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Just as a general rule, when we develop a technology, someone in our society (typically rich people and limit-testers; also teens) will try doing the worst most abominable deeds with this tech until we learn there is a general good reason not to do that thing.
Hence, defective clones of aristocrats, deepfakes of school peers and AI child porn. This is just the beginning.
Fun Fact: NGOs have long been using 3D printers to create prototypes by which to smith Soviet-era guns to arm villages against regional warlords. As desktop manufacturing gets closer and closer to the home office, ad hoc arms production will be an inevitability.
Do a quick Google for "FGC-9“
The future is now, old man!
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