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I appreciate his pointer to precedent, but the truth is that while precedent is a start, we're going to need to do work with principles beyond precedent. When t
by wwweston 2y ago
I appreciate his pointer to precedent, but the truth is that while precedent is a start, we're going to need to do work with principles beyond precedent. When tech introduces unprecedented capabilities, we will either figure out how to draw boundaries within which it (among other features of society) works for people, not against them, or we'll let it lead us closer to a world in which the strong do what they will and the weak (or those just trying to keep a camry running) suffer what they must.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoCalifornia recently signed some legislation into effect. It’s a start. Congress is working on “No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas And Unauthorized Duplications Act.” Still in dev in the House, but has bipartisan support. Call your congressperson, ask them to co-sponsor and/or vote for it. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/california-bills-protecting-actors-performers-from-a-i-replicas-signed-into-law-by-gov-newsom/ https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/california-bills-pro... https://salazar.house.gov/media/press-releases/salazar-introduces-no-ai-fraud-act https://salazar.house.gov/media/press-releases/salazar-intro... https://files.constantcontact.com/1849eea4801/695cfd71-1d24-4146-a453-3dab7d49babd.pdf https://files.constantcontact.com/1849eea4801/695cfd71-1d24-...
- Dalewyn 2y agoIt's going to be an interesting First Amendment question.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoMight as well make photoshopping and manual audio tweaking / impersonation illegal, since its the same ballpark, just less effort.
- Buttons840 2y agoWe need better liable and slander enforcement. Treat realistic media as a truth claim that is subject to liable laws.
- wwweston 2y agoA bit like breaking a door is "the same ballpark" as unlocking it with a key. Or paying with legit currency instead of counterfeit. Sometimes all you want is the effect, other times it's important that you're accurately representing effort or accounting for other human considerations.
- Drakim 2y agoMight as well make forging signatures and identity thief legal. Who is the government to say which squiggles I may and may not write? Society is about compromises and balancing different needs against each other. Sometimes we go one way, other times we go the other way, there is no one principle that always solve any situation.
- 123yawaworht456 2y agono one demands a moratorium on pens and pencils because someone might write illegal squiggles with them. we simply accept the fact that 0.0001% of squiggles will be illegal, harmful, hateful, unethical, unsafe, etc, so we can use the pen and pencil tech to write the other 99.9999% of squiggles. the current lobbying and legislating efforts seek to outlaw pens and pencils produced by anyone but a handful of US corporation, who only let you use their pens and pencils if you let them look over your shoulder while you write your squiggles.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoyes, and if it became, say, 10-20% squiggles we'd have a different conversation. Those 0.0001% will be fought in court. I think it's obvious which industry I'm referring to.
- saaaaaam 2y agoBut I think if you photoshopped someone into an advertising image in a way that made them appear to endorse your product you would probably very quickly be hit (and lose?) a lawsuit right? So I’m increasingly of the opinion that it’s not the tool that needs to be regulated, but the use of the output. Clone voices? Fine. Clone voices for deceptive or commercial purposes without the person’s consent? Not fine. But then how do you prove it, what is deceptive, what is non-consenting voice cloning, yadda yadda. I imagine we will shortly see a raft of YouTubers adding “do not clone my voice” notices to their channels like the Facebook “by posting this notice you remove all rights for Facebook to steal the copyright in your photos” spam posts that were doing the rounds at one point.
- Dalewyn 2y ago>you would probably very quickly be hit (and lose?) a lawsuit right? A lawsuit from a private individual or business entity is very different from the federal, state, or municipal government attempting to silence you, the latter is prohibited by the First Amendment. I find it appalling that this needs to be spelled out.
- saaaaaam 2y agoI wasn’t replying to the comment about the First Amendment, I was responding to a (what I assume was a somewhat satirical) comment about making photoshop illegal. Fully aware of the difference between a civil lawsuit vs government lawsuit though so you can pop your italics back in the box and rest easy!
- chefandy 2y agoSo currently, if I Photoshop a picture of Scarlett Johansen into in an ad for my hot dog stand, that would be unambiguously no problem? Nobody's talking about making AI illegal, but some people seem to think it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for copyright violations, and it's just not.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoI do think deepfakes or anything done to intentially mislead/impersonate should be illegal, yes. Intent is 90% of the law.
- mbrumlow 2y agoSeems silly. What if I train my model on somebody who sounds like a somebody?
- toomuchtodo 2y agoYou go to court and see what happens.
- ERR_CERT_AUTH3 2y agoOh so its like patents
- ninalanyon 2y agoBut why isn't it like copyright? Actually that's easy: it wouldn't be profitable, yet.
- bbor 2y agoI mean, it’s the same as trademark disputes; legal standards will slowly be cobbled together from statutes, regulations, and random judges setting precedent. “Confusion in the marketplace” seems like a potentially relevant term — accidentally producing a product similar to an existing person’s voice is one thing, but publishing it in a manner and/or context that makes it seem like that person recorded the lines is something else entirely. Anyway, given how the election is shaking out on Twitter, I have a feeling political usage will spark legislation and precedent far before commercial usage does. But that’s just a plain guess
- chefandy 2y agoOr any other copyright, for that matter. What if you copied a CC licensed sound-alike knockoff of a pop song, but the owner of the original song's master thought it sounded more like the original? This is just a new expression of an old problem.
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- giancarlostoro 2y agoThe copyright hell carries on it looks like.
- EGreg 2y agoThey’re stifling creativity with these anti-AI bills! “No AI unathorized duplications”… these regulations are going to hold this country back while others advance. Mark Andreessen is very much against this government overreach
- parineum 2y agoYou joke but couldn't I just pay a Chinese company to train model for me that sounds like a certain person and use it with impunity? Sounding like someone certainly isn't illegal and a foreign company isn't going to respond to a lawsuit that aims to determine the source of their training data. You'd just not have to pretend to be that person in a deceptive way (parody is legal).
- berniedurfee 2y agoNo doubt it’s bipartisan! Politician’s careers live and die in the fickle Court of Public Opinion. They’re probably the most susceptible cohort to AI fakes. One of the rare times, it seems, that politician’s incentives are aligned with the populous. (Yes, I could have left that last part out.)
- johnnyanmac 2y agoI'm sure that impersonation of Taylor Swift really scared the represenatives. A billionaire trying to copy the likeness of another billionaire for votes. I'm sure even some hard staunched conservatives realize how badly that can end.
- bbor 2y agoYeah but I don’t think being either party in a precedent-setting litigation is fun or easy. You’d have to find some sort of political non-profit (ACLU?) to foot the bill as you go from appeal to appeal, all the while enduring negative media coverage and general attention. The Camry class needs its defenders, I wholeheartedly agree, but it’s also a core principle of contemporary praxis that you gotta let people choose their comfort level/ability to contribute. Encourage, promote, embolden — but try not to shame :) Anyway, something tells me this blog post is gonna be more than enough. I don’t think basically anyone is on the side of stealing people’s voices, it’s just intuitively icky in a way that scraping the NYT and deviantart archives for training data isn’t. Public shaming isn’t gonna win him a big sack of damages, but it doesn’t seem like that’s what he’s after!
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- erfan_mehraban 2y agoThis comment fooled my comment summarization bot. Thank you to teach me something today!