It's been trivial to make images, nude or otherwise, of anyone providing you have a couple of photos of them since roughly August or September of 2022. I know because I made some funny images (for a leaving party) of one of my friends (e.g. friend as Luke Skywalker etc), and this was with open source software running on a few years old GPU.<p>The fact is this, this particular cat is out of the bag and will never be going back inside. It's only getting easier and more devices (including phones) have the required graphics capability to do this.<p>I think we just have to accept that (as has always happened), the world has evolved and there are new ways to hurt people. When I was a teen and the internet first appeared, people could get bullied via ICQ and MSN, and also got the shit kicked out of them in person too. Now kids can get bullied on Insta and have porn made of them too.<p>However, in my final year of high school, someone printed out a bunch of images of one of our teachers heads photoshopped onto a pornstars body. It wasn't a perfect fit but I'm sure the poor teacher didn't care about it not being "perfect."<p>With content-aware fill, and other more advanced tools, it's been possible to Photoshop porn-a-likes which are pretty damn good for a long time, and I dont think the new tech changes anything really. Human nature stays the same and it's that we should be trying to work on, through education, child-care, etc. "Tools" for abuse or bullying will always exist and keep evolving, and trying to play whack-a-mole with them will never work, rather like trying to ban booze or weed. Trying to create a more caring society, improving schools and budgeting for teachers and teacher training, social workers, etc, is the way forward here.<p>But, sadly, inevitably, we will go with the easy option, try and legislate our way out of this, which won't work at all, and the cycle of bullshit will continue.