Editor's Note: The arrival of mature artificial intelligence promises no shortage of miraculous possible future technologies, from the virtual assistant who saves your life to the perfect, free doctor, adaptive learning at scale, and the one-man media company 1,000 clones strong. But it is also now possible to simulate realistic photos, of real human beings, in any scenario you can imagine. Let’s translate that to the language of our gutter internet: you can now look at pictures of anyone you know — celebrity, enemy, girlfriend of your very best friend — having sex. We have absolutely no idea how to manage the cultural fallout of this phenomenon.

An internet drama surrounding several social media influencers embroiled in a sexfake controversy is now catching fire across Twitch and Twitter. It is a bizarre, and incredibly important story for some reason entirely ignored by the press. Perhaps because most “tech” reporters have no idea what artificial intelligence even is, let alone what the arrival of artificial intelligence means.

In any case, we’re on it. River Page reports.