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I used to wonder about the morality about doing a Barklay and having sex with the likeness of someone else in the holodeck. But then AI deepfakes came and the reality of it just seems terrible.It's not moral. Not much to ponder there. Imagination is it's own thing but bringing it into reality and holograms are real holograms, they're part of reality is when you need to ask. Shouldn't have even been an option to do on the holodeck by programming anyway
Yeah, and they've had them for a long time, so even leaving the obvious moral argument the clear psychological danger of interacting with simulacra of real people should be well known. But perhaps Barclay's case really is genuinely unusual and (hopefully) would have prompted a wide-ranging review of holodeck ethical programming that we'd only see more about on some purely hypothetical Star Trek: San Francisco.
I could see social interaction practice with simulacra being of therapeutic value when used appropriately under the guidance of an actual therapist. Which probably should also need the consent of the person who is being simulated.
Perhaps also for command simulator practice and other tightly defined scenarios.