Tougher AI policies could protect Taylor Swift—and everyone else—from deepfakes

by scientificamerican

12 comments
  1. Republicans won’t even pass a stricter immigration bill they want because they don’t want Biden to get credit. They will never lift a finger for Taylor Swift or women.

  2. there’s no government policy that will ever prevent deepfakes, or have enough power to force content distributors to police it themselves, its an impossible task. The very fabric of the current internet is the problem, and the only way around the coming deepfake video/audio problem is with a network secured with blockchain.

  3. Honestly, I feel that the propagation of deep fakes of other people should be completely illegal without their written consent. Maybe that’s just me tho.

  4. Oh thank god I was losing sleep with concern for poor Taylor swift.

  5. I love how they added the “and everyone else” line, it’s good to know someone cares about me and TaySwift equally

  6. It’s been happening for a while and nothing happens but as soon as it happens to a billionaire we take action. Can we please start tackling these issues much earlier?

  7. I can’t help but feel as though the way people conceptualize “the problem”, is in fact a problem.

    This central issue is that AI is being trained using material that the AI owners do not own, and do not license.

    The issue is not so much “is the thing people make with the AI legal?”. The issue is that nearly all of these AI companies have neural networks that rely on data they simply do not own, and that in and of itself is illegal. Unfortunately copyright has been devalued, and this further devalues it.

    Copying data and holding parts of it in algorithmic intermediate form does not change the fact that it is still an act of copyright violation.

  8. Many people complained regarding it since months nothing happened it happens to her now it’s a PROBLEM?? Wow

  9. What about AI art theft? Millions of artists have been protesting it! Voice actors and movie extras doing same!

  10. Legislation may make a slight dent in this type of activity, but the AI cat is all the way out of the bag. It’s too late to stop it. There will always be people running their own servers to create this type of material, and there will always be shady websites willing to host it. Anyone whose photograph is online is a potential victim. It will only get worse and worse.

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