The primacy of the the face, nakedness of the body, and the perfect body

Many people, and many celebs get upset, some very much so when compromising pictures of themselves are released.    Yet the most important external thing, exterior aspect about a body, at least the one aspect that defines them most, is their face which is public information, and since it is public information all have access to it.    Thankfully there are laws to protect use of their likeliness in public, otherwise it could get even more chaotic, but a program could potentially easily generate their likeliness in new contexts with ease in privacy, ever greater ease as time goes on.

Since everyone has access to privacy, they can make use of said likeness if desired in private.   Now that said, why do I say the face is primary, or of utmost importance, more important than the rest of the body?   Because the imperfections of the rest of the body do not define someone as a person.   A mole here, some scars there, some skin sags there, some cellulite there, can anyone say such is of significant importance?   Would the person not be the very same exact person if they got implants, or reductions, or took care of the cellulite or removed a mole?   Indeed all of these are minor details of little importance.   There are many that get plastic surgery throughout the body to improve appearance, but clearly remain the same individual.

But given the commonality of the human shape, and the fact the human shape in its entirely is well known, once the imperfections are taken out, the series of human shapes that remain are in the public domain.   Everyone knows and can make use of these, and given the silhouette of someone can potentially replicate the combination of face and plausible photoreal ideal underlying body type.

If a person has a flawless body?  a perfect body? Is it not the same person?  Or can we say it is, it is indeed only in a better looking state with the flaws removed?  While flaws may have their charm they are not essential to identity, most consider a change towards flawlessness an improvement.

But technology is advancing, the day will be soon at hand when "clothing removal" like ai will be able to produce photoreal results of any individual in an instant.   They will have plausible random physical flaws if desired or be physically flawless.  Whilst now with great difficulty and time some can take hours in photoshop to attempt to create some such by mix and matching Frankenstein style, the future products will have a finer granularity of features making them seamless and infinitely more natural.

How will people react come such a technology?  Right now some flaws remain in some of the techniques, but time will iron them out just as it is doing in fake face generation improvements.   Decades ago I foresaw that with enough computing power and good enough ai software it would be possible to essentially have photoreal versions of anyone doing anything.   Interestingly enough with immersive VR or AR, at least in the visual sense, it may come to pass that indistinguishable from real novel movements and presence of others can be replicated.