In Fan-Topia, a fan in Brazil can use AI to "act" alongside Tom Cruise. A teenager in Ohio can generate a podcast featuring the voices of dead comedians. The barriers between creator and consumer have dissolved. We are told this is democratization. "Everyone is a creator now," the platforms cheer.
In their warped logic, they are the heroes of Fan-Topia. They are Robin Hood, stealing the digital body of the rich (Olsen) and giving it to the poor (the fan base). Fan-Topia.Mondomonger.Deepfakes.Elizabeth.Olsen...
The Mondomonger has perverted that axiom. They have turned love into possession, admiration into enslavement, and art into assault. In , the dream of total access to our idols has curdled into the nightmare of total violation. In Fan-Topia, a fan in Brazil can use
We have a choice. We can continue to let the algorithms run wild, allowing anonymous to trade the faces of actresses like poker chips. Or we can wake up, log off, and recognize that a digital body is still a body, and Elizabeth Olsen is a human being, not a resource to be mined. We are told this is democratization