Governor Gavin Newson signs a law cracking down on AI-generated political deepfakes

| September 20, 2024

Expand image and look closely at the back half of the audience as if you were looking for Waldo.

People have leveraged AI to generate deep fake videos. One type of AI generated material became the focus of California lawmakers. Governor Gavin Newson signed a law aimed at cracking down on AI generated deep fake political videos. Elon Musk responded by sharing a parody video along with his comments. Videos with disclosures appear to be exempted.

From Forbes:

While speaking with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on stage at the company’s “Dreamforce” AI convention Tuesday, Newsom signed three bills targeting deepfakes in political ads.

Assembly Bill 2839, which goes into effect immediately, makes it illegal to distribute “materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate” 120 days before an election and in some cases, 60 days after.

The law allows candidates to seek a court order to pull down any deepfake ads and also sue the person who distributed them–although parody and satire that includes a disclosure are exempted.

Assembly Bill 2655, which will go into effect next year, requires online platforms like X and Facebook to take down such political deepfakes and Assembly Bill 2355 requires campaigns to make a public disclosure if they run ads with AI-generated or altered visuals.

Additional Reading:

Ray, S. (2024, September 18). Musk attacks Newsom, says California’s new anti-deepfake law makes ‘parody illegal’. Forbes. Link.

Category: 2024 Election

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5JC

Gavin Newsome is literally Hitler.

jeff LPH 3 63-66

Those Parodies you had on were great. I used to watch them awhile ago and didn’t know they were still on. There was a Hitler parody about my Fire Dept and my Ex Chief/Commish were mentioned about the friction between the paid crew and Vollies. Another one with Hitler getting pissed off when someone mentioned there was no such thing as Santa Clause, And him working in Mc Donalds. I much have watched a shitload of those in the past. Thanks 5JC for putting that up.

MarineDad61

IF any of you see someone using FAKE AI voice of Donald Trump
(or worse, shagged and cobbled Trump video snips)
to put out fake tout, fake (self) praise, and/or fake support by Trump,
what do you think should happen to the AI faker?

5JC

35 whacks on the PeePee with a metal ruler. If they don’t have a PeePee it needs to be added on at their own expense. Alternatively they can listen to an eight hour interview Harris being interviewed by The View without commercial interruption.

26Limabeans

Free pager.

MarineDad61

5JC and 26Limabeans,
As you may already know,
or if you don’t, some of you will now find this disgusting.

This is 1 of MANY by this guy… just as I described above.
On others, he has the FAKE AI voice of Donald Trump
calling him a “war hero” and a “White House insider”.
Oh, and also having access to “secret” government documents.

ALL BS.

https://rumble.com/v3zeiov-teddy-daniels-uses-fake-ai-voice-of-donald-trump-to-sell-his-67-operation-b.html

Anonymous

Constitution? Democrats don’t need no stinkin’ “racist” Constition!

Slow Joe

Who’s waldo?

26Limabeans
Slow Joe

I thought Waldo was a person.
There is a guy in that picture on top with a long neck.
Is that the guy?

26Limabeans

Nah, that’s just some pencil neck geek.
The lady on his right looks pretty sad about something.

BennSue

Yeah let me know how that works out for them.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

This is what happens when idiots convince themselves that “SHALL MAKE NO LAW” doesn’t actually mean what is written.

Anyone thinking the Bill of Rights is not under constant threat by an ever more oppressive government is clearly a bootlicking assclown.

Anonymous

The don’t get “shall not be infinged” (or want to) either. For some reason the founders might dislike.

th-5
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Anonymous

Good luck with that!

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KoB

The Fall is coming…Prepare