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White House calls for legislation to stop Taylor Swift AI fakes

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

This wasn't a problem until the rich white girl got it. Now we must do... something. Let's try panic!

-The Whitehouse, probably.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, I kind of don't even care. If that's what it takes to get people to realize that it's a serious problem, cool. I mean, it's aggravating, but at least now something might actually happen that helps protect people who aren't megastars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You must be new to capitalism, lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

The only thing that could possibly happen to protect people from this is to make AI illegal. That would be (a) impossible to enforce without draconian decrease in individual freedom, like keeping people stuffed in crates of packing foam instead of free to move around, and (b) absolutely horrible if it were successfully enforced.

AI is cheaper and easier to proliferate than any drug. We have not succeeded in controlling drugs, despite their physical requirements of mass and volume making them visible in reality, a feature AI does not share.

The attempt to control AI can and will destroy all our freedoms if we let it. Again, the only way to control something so ephemeral as computation is to massively restrict all freedom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

White House used Panic!

It hurt itself in its confusion!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It absolutely was a problem before and it’s not because Taylor is white. Revenge porn laws aren’t new and AI legislation has been in the works before this popped off.

You also gonna say nobody cared about election interference until an AI recording of Biden told people not to vote?

Just because you weren’t aware doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening