Please excuse any perceived tone in my reply. I'm furious but not at you, and I've re-drafted this several times and I can't even tell what tone it conveys any more. I appreciate your thoughtful response and you're likely right in that they've likely ticket a box or walked past a sign or whatever, as we always used to for photos and video. And you've explicitly noted you're not commenting on the morality of it.

I'm certainly not saying you're wrong. Although you might be, if the specific country has laws around deepfakes that don't explicitly specify they need to be sexually explicit to be illegal.

Or if you're not allowed to bury ridiculous stuff in small print.

I've just checked the terms and conditions of entry for the next venue I'm going to, and you're right that buried in the T&Cs of entry is:

>By entering the Venue you agree to your actual or simulated likeness being included for no fee within any film, photograph, audio and/or audio-visual recording to be exploited in any and all media for any purpose at any time throughout the world. This includes filming by the police or security staff which may be carried out for the security of customers or the prevention of crime. However, you may object to such use by specific request to privacy@livenation.co.uk .

The signage for the above venue did not make this clear last time I was there. I wonder if that was the case for the venues involved?

But there's no way people walking in the venue can reasonably be expected to have given informed consent to the artist producing deepfakes of them.