Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes

Tragic that they were a celebrity that had to go through it for them to do something. But when children or others have it happened to them, they just shrug..

What a weird populist law tbh. There's already an established law framework that covers this: defamation. Not a lawyer but it seems like this should be addressed instead of writing up some new memes.

They'll use this as an opportunity to sneak in more government spyware/control is my guess.

The 1% only look out for the 1%, remember that.

I believe libel laws already exist, but when you're in Congress you must make laws in a reactionary way otherwise considered thought and reason might begin to permeate the law. We wouldn't want that.

Why just nonconsensual sexual deep fakes? How about nonconsensual deep fakes of anything ?

individuals who produced or possessed the forgery with intent to distribute it

this is going to be a wild ride.

there's a scenario where the creator is not the leaker but angry people with forks won't even care of the distinction.

Alternate headline: Legislators Vow To Put Genie Back In Bottle

So they can still make them the old school way using Photoshop?

Hot take, but I feel like this is entirely the wrong direction to take. I feel like this will go badly in one of many ways if passed, and I feel like leaning into this would lead to a better world

Women, especially teachers, lose their jobs because their nudes leaked. This technology is in the wild, it can't be put back in the box. It can be done at home by a technically gifted teenager with a gaming computer. While this is certainly true, I don't think the common person will understand this until it's everywhere.

Yeah, I get that it must feel horribly violating, but imagine the world where we go the other direction - where nude pictures have no power, because anyone could have whipped them up.

Where the response to seeing them is anger or disgust, not fear

But my biggest concern is the fact that most technical people don't understand generative AI... There's no way in hell Congress grasps the concept. I'm scared to read the full wording of this bill

I don't get it. Why care? It's not her.

Maybe if they're making money of off her likeness. But without a money trail it just seems like chasing ghosts for not much reason.

So what happens if a person allows their likeness to be 3d modeled and textured for something like a video game, and that 3d model is used to create explicit images. Is that not a problem (or maybe a different kind of problem) because it's not a deepfake and instead a use of a digital asset?

This appears to be the bill: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24397944-defiance-act

For reference, this is the section getting altered: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/6851

This looks to be an absolute shitshow. I fear it’ll be made even worse before it passes. Maybe they’ll curtail the abuse potential. Then again, maybe not. It may be seen as hurting the right people.

It's already impossible to stop.

Also, doing something ONLY when a billionaire complains, is a very bad look.

This will stop em!

So the market will be to create AI replicates that look just close enough?

Only sexual ones? not political ones? rigged.

So like how deep are we talking?

They're pretty convincing at first glance, but if you know what to look for it's easy to tell... Kind of like Photoshop

What if its non consensual but also non nude like this one I made?

Is this not revenge porn type of blackmail? Surely that law already exists?

what would aaron swartz do?