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Monday, 2 November 2026

AI Ethiquettes

The ethics and etiquette of everyday AI.

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Everyday AI Ethics

Deepfaking friends for fun: where’s the line?

Consent, context and the group-chat rule.

Face-swap apps make it easy to put a friend into a film scene or a meme. Most of the time it is harmless. The line is consent and where the image ends up.

The group-chat rule

Only make it if the person would laugh when they see it, and only share it where they would be comfortable with it travelling further, because it might.

Never

  • Sexual or humiliating images of anyone.
  • Anything that could pass as real news or a real statement.
  • Images of children other than your own, and think twice about those.

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