Gavin Newsom passes law against deepfake political ads

a reply to: BingoMcGoof

One might think that all free thinking people would applaud this simple beginning to help protect our fellow citizens from further exploitation at the hands of artificial intelligence manipulation. One might think.

"Free-thinking people" is the operative phrase here. If a person is so gullible as to believe it was really Kamala Harris in the spoof commercial, then that person needs to learn how to think.

a reply to: xuenchen

Is an AI bot a person?

originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: xuenchen

Is an AI bot a person?

Facebook has been using AI to influence it's customers for several years now. Advertisers use AI in their ad productions, which they run 24\7, to influence people.

Should Newsom ban those too?

originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: xuenchen

Is an AI bot a person?

Is a piece of marble a volcanic pumice rock?

a reply to: ColeYounger2

This is the question.

A can of worms has been opened again, it's a difficult discussion that was bound to happen.
We have chatgpt4 that can convince actual people to solve captchas for it. The velocity at which AI is going, guardrails are going to be out up.

a reply to: ColeYounger2

So, are you saying here that you couldn't give a crap about people who are not as astute as yourself? I get it. However the levels of deceit, the complexity of deceit, the entire spectrum of deceit is advancing at historical rates. Soon enough they may even be high enough to ensnare all of us who think that we are smart enough to escape it's tendrils.

originally posted by: ColeYounger2
California governor Gavin Newsom, who is a living South Park character, has made it illegal to use AI to create "false images and videos" in political ads close to Election Day.

Newsom's AI Crackdown

What a bunch of crybabies.

What a relief. I'm glad making a law criminalizing a certain object/behavior has a long and successful history of eliminating that object/behavior from our society. it never fails, you make a law and it practically vanishes overnight like magic. Thank you Newsome for reducing the spread of parodies, one of the very serious problems afflicting our nation. A true American hero.

/sarc

You know who also supports this?

Thats right.

My lawyer.

Joseph Mama.

a reply to: BingoMcGoof

They don't care of the huge impact AI will have on human civilization, they think it's just bound to funny memes and trolling.

originally posted by: xuenchen
Looks like Democrats are doing it again! Pass laws and do things that are illegal and do it anyway to get some results. Loonitics. 😀

Yup........ I knew it. 🤡


Gov. Newsom’s ‘Anti-Deepfake’ Bill Blocked By Federal Judge, A Win For Elon Musk

A federal judge blocked California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s anti-deepfake legislation on Wednesday, which sought to criminalize digitally-altered political images and videos 60 days before an election.

Newsom attempted to pass the bill after billionaire tech mogul and X owner Elon Musk shared an AI altered “deepfake” parody video of Vice President Kamala Harris. In the fake, altered video, Harris thanked President Joe Biden for exposing “his senility,” adding that she was the “ultimate diversity hire.”

Although Newsom was confident that the bill would pass, U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sided with Musk, concluding that Newsom’s proposed law gives legislators “unbridled license to bulldoze over the longstanding tradition of critique, parody, and satire protected by the First Amendment.”