• badbytes@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If an underage AI character, is portrayed in say a movie or games, is that wrong? Seems like a very slippery slope.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 day ago

      There have been controversies about that sort of thing.

      I know the Oscar-winning movie The Tin Drum as an example. The book by Günter Grass is a very serious, highly celebrated piece of German post-war literature. It takes place around WW2. The protagonist has the mind of an adult in the body of a child. I guess the idea is that he is the other way around from most people?

      The movie was banned in Ontario and Oklahoma, for a time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum_(film)#Censorship

      With European societies shifting right, I doubt such a movie could be made today, but we aren’t at a point where it would be outright illegal.