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Difficult to know what even to say about this. It might be legal? But it is a deep violation of the social contract.
It's promoting the fetishization of already deeply marginalized and possibly easily exploited people due to their genetics.
This is going to create a subclass of gooners who want to groom and exploit the mentally handicapped in real life which is definitely illegal.
You're probably right, but this feels an awful lot like a 'violence in video games will lead to violence in real life' argument.
While I don't disagree with you, what if the violence in the game in question was specifically against people with Down's Syndrome? I think that may bring it a little closer to being equal - in terms of the analogy, anyway. I don't think the big problem here is the AI porn necessarily, so much as the fetishization of not just a minority, but one with an impairment. (Which I think is only further compounded by said impairment being largely cognitive/developmental in nature, as well.)