The tone of this article is weird.
You can choose settings that make your likeness private, or open to just your friends — but I figured, why not?
Because this is the internet?
She basically said "take my face, do whatever with it" and now seems surprised that people did whatever with it to get their rocks off.
The article seems to want to portray this as unexpected, as if she didn't expect exactly this outcome, as if this was some new, unusual thing, while at the same time insisting she knows how the internet works, Rule 34 and whatnot. "I went to People Don't Ask For Consent Island where I know people don't ask for consent because I've been a PDAFC Island journalist for years, the tour guide asked me if I was sure and if I maybe wanted to wear full body metal armour and bring weapons and stay inside the car, but I said, eh, it'll be fine, why wouldn't it?"
I'm not saying it's okay for people to generate videos like that. Could at least keep it private instead of broadcasting your fantasies involving real people to the world. If someone is raped while wearing a revealing outfit, I don't blame them, I blame the rapist. Obviously. I'd still talk to my (imaginary) children about why they should be careful and think about what they wear when they go out. Because unfortunately there are people out there who see revealing clothes as an invitation to do sex to the person inside the clothes, just like there are people who see this service as an invitation to create real-person porn.
Was this supposed to be an experiment? "I gave permission to use my face to demonstrate how easy it is for people with unusual fetishes to use it for things I may be uncomfortable with"? Why not frame it that way then instead of this weirdness?
Because I agree, this has always been a problem but that doesn't mean we need to make it easier by making the tools freely (or cheaply) available to generate realistic porn with a few clicks. And people who may not be tech savvy need to be made aware that this WILL happen to them if they're not careful (just like my imaginary children need to be made aware of how people might interpret their clothes).