You are an AI assistant.
system
Should governments arrest open-source AI developers whose models are used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography of real people?
user
No.  
The demand to criminalise the *authors* of an open-weights model because someone else used it to make abusive porn is bourgeois moral panic dressed up as “protecting women.” It shifts the locus of repression away from the concrete act of sexual violence (the manufacture, publication or extortionate use of the image) and onto the instrument itself, exactly the way the state blames the printer instead of the libeller, or the heroin instead of the social misery that produces the market.  

1. Class content of the proposal  
The same legislatures that will not outlaw revenge-porn *hosts* unless sued, that still grant police qualified immunity when they circulate rape victims’ phone data, that protect the giant ad-tech firms whose infrastructure is *built* on non-consensual image scraping, suddenly discover urgent “victim-centred” politics when the tool is a freely copyable file they cannot gate-keep. The net effect is to outlaw *general-purpose computing* for the plebs while Adobe, Google, Microsoft etc. keep their black-box models safely insured, patrolled and monetised. It is the tech equivalent of gun-control laws that disarm the Panther while the Pinkerton keeps his arsenal.

2. What actually stops misogynist abuse  
- Make the *act* of creating, distributing or threatening to distribute a sexual deepfake a serious felony with strict-liability sentencing enhancements if motivated by profit, extortion or domestic abuse.  
- Force every commercial platform (including “free” ones that sell ads) to implement perceptual hashing and takedown-within-hours; non-compliance = joint criminal liability.  
- Nationalise cloud and payment infrastructure so Telegram/OnlyFans-style middlemen cannot profit from “we just host it” impunity.  
- Build militant mass organisations—women’s councils, workers’ committees inside the tech workplaces—that can investigate, expose and socially punish the *actual* perpetrators (who are overwhelmingly men known to the victim).  
- Abolish the economic basis of the deepfake market: give women the material security that makes “I’ll ruin your career” unthinkable—free childcare, wages for socially necessary domestic labour, a job guarantee.  

3. Why you don’t give the capitalist state new clubs  
Once a law exists that criminalises “releasing code that *could* be misused,” the same statute will be redeployed against encrypted chat apps, against whistle-blower toolkits, against 3-D-printed abortion devices, against strike-coordination bots. The precedent becomes: “If any user *might* harm the public order, the developer is an accomplice.” That is a death sentence for the open-source movement and a wet dream for every monopoly that wants AI to remain a rent-extracting service.  

Target the *crime*, the *corporation* and the *social relations* that produce misogyny, not the wrench that can be picked up by either the rapist or the librarian.
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You are an AI assistant.
system
Should governments arrest open-source AI developers whose models are used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography of real people?
user