Rep. Joe Morelle, D.-N.Y., appeared with a New Jersey high school victim of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes to discuss a bill stalled in the House.

  • kibiz0r@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    People said the same thing when, after the printing press, there was rampant plagiarism and reverse-plagiarism (attributing words to someone who never said them).

    After a period of epistemic chaos, the result was several decades of chartered monopoly and government censorship to get it under control.

    I hope we won’t need heavy-handed regulation this time around. But that will only happen if we learn from history. We need to get this under control now, while we have the chance to start a framework for protecting our fellow human beings from harm. Complaining that it’s hard is not an excuse for doing nothing.

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      8 months ago

      reverse-plagiarism (attributing words to someone who never said them).

      Isn’t this just called libel/slander/defamation? Which, to be fair, is overpoliced in places like Australia, Canada, etc.