AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate
AOC's Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate
“It’s time to give victims their day in court and the tools they need to fight back,” says Sen. Dick Durbin as the DEFIANCE Act heads to the House.
THE SENATE UNANIMOUSLY passed a bipartisan bill to provide recourse to victims of porn deepfakes — or sexually-explicit, non-consensual images created with artificial intelligence.
The legislation, called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act — passed in Congress’ upper chamber on Tuesday. The legislation has been led by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in the House.
The legislation would amend the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to allow people to sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake pornography, if they “knew or recklessly disregarded” the fact that the victim did not consent to those images.
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Am I the only one that still gets uncomfortable every time the government tries to regulate advanced technology?
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It's not a Libertarian thing to me as much as it's a'politicians don't understand technology thing.'AOC is young. I think she's a politician that does understand the technology and if she needs to she can educate the other boomers on the bill.
I would be careful about assuming knowledge based on age. Young people might use technology without understanding it, and old people might understand it and don't want to use it.
Technology needs to be regulated, and I would not trust people with profit incentives to do so.
IMO, it is always important to investigate if a regulation wants to prevent a real issue or if they just mention some populist reasons for doing whatever they want.
I do agree that age is not the determining factor but it definitely plays one. But yeah we need experts advising our old government.
She is about my age. And I still do not think she, or anyone really, understands the technology we have.
That is true. AI itself is actually still a mystery to everyone. But I bet she knows what wifi is.
Why even specifically mention AI? Are there already laws that cover creating a sexually explicit likeness without consent e.g. with photoshop or just painting one? If so why wouldn't those laws also cover AI and if not why wouldn't the law also wish to cover these cases?
So what do you propose instead? Doing nothing about anything?
I didn't post with an alternative solution in mind as much as I was looking to elicit conversation that provided more perspective and context that would assuage my concerns. -I've since got that from some of the others responses.
You need to start somewhere. Regulation will always lag behind technology. But sooner or later things will get regulated. Once a good number of people are affected by something, rules will be brought in by the people. That's how democracy works.
These rules are never perfect. Sometimes, to make rules effective, they have to be multilayered (swiss cheese model). But that makes them too expensive to implement. So eventually things end in a compromise where cost and effectiveness balance.
—It's not a Libertarian thing to me as much as it's a 'politicians don't understand firearms thing.'
—It's not a Libertarian thing to me as much as it's a 'politicians don't understand healthcare thing.'
—It's not a Libertarian thing to me as much as it's a 'politicians don't understand medical thing.'
Why aren't you on lemmy.one?
I barely understand how any of the instances stuff work. What is lemmy.one and why should I be on it?
Politicians understand Healthcare and guns, they just don't care about the fallout.
At least they have now started to try to learn about the tech they're trying to regulate, as opposed to Ted Stevens who obviously just read a prepared speech someone else had made in his famous "Series of Tubes" speech.
More like the silicon valley funding machine had someone write up the bill and hand it over to a senator to retype on official letterhead.