That's what I was thinking. Whether a pornographic picture of me and a gorilla was made by photoshop or AI is irrelevant. People's reactions will be the same, and repercussions will be mostly the same (which doesn't means there will be consequences).
If someone really wants to hurt you, not having AI isn't going to stop them.
The real effect will be that you can publish a real picture of you fucking a gorilla and nobody would believe it because it's trivial to generate it with an AI.
If someone really wants to hurt you, not having AI isn't going to stop them.