NY Governor Wants To Criminalize Deceptive AI (axios.com) 39
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing legislation that would criminalize some deceptive and abusive uses of AI and require disclosure of AI in election campaign materials, her office told Axios. From the report: Hochul's proposed laws include establishing the crime of "unlawful dissemination or publication of a fabricated photographic, videographic, or audio record." Making unauthorized uses of a person's voice "in connection with advertising or trade" a misdemeanor offense. Such offenses are punishable by up to one year jail sentence.
Expanding New York's penal law to include unauthorized uses of artificial intelligence in coercion, criminal impersonation and identity theft.
Amending existing intimate images and revenge porn statutes to include "digital images" -- ranging from realistic Photoshop-produced work to advanced AI-generated content. Codifying the right to sue over digitally manipulated false images. Requiring disclosures of AI use in all forms of political communication "including video recording, motion picture, film, audio recording, electronic image, photograph, text, or any technological representation of speech or conduct" within 60 days of an election.
Amending existing intimate images and revenge porn statutes to include "digital images" -- ranging from realistic Photoshop-produced work to advanced AI-generated content. Codifying the right to sue over digitally manipulated false images. Requiring disclosures of AI use in all forms of political communication "including video recording, motion picture, film, audio recording, electronic image, photograph, text, or any technological representation of speech or conduct" within 60 days of an election.
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No, more like Fox News, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, the whole of "Prager U", and all "conservative" talk show hosts on radio. The whole sector is so monotone in its servile service of whatever dogshit they decide is "conservative" that it could very easily be mimicked by AI. At least Al Jazeera has reporters traveling the globe. The entire "conservative" media enterprise consists of people spewing nonsense. Hell, it may already be AI generated.
You pussies cannot even hurl good insults.
At least the right spew *something*, the left is so busy making sure that nothing they say could possibly offend anyone that they can barely say anything at all!
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if that was true why have been conservatives been offended by anything liberals do for the past 16 years of my life
you were offended america had the audacity to elect a black man president and haven't stopped being offended a day since
the snowflake horseshoe is true. y'all are a bunch babies, you are mad about something new every day, i mean, fuck, this week you're actually mad about the NFL and white heterosexual relationships. wild times for you all
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if that was true why have been conservatives been offended by anything liberals do for the past 16 years of my life
you were offended america had the audacity to elect a black man president and haven't stopped being offended a day since
the snowflake horseshoe is true. y'all are a bunch babies, you are mad about something new every day, i mean, fuck, this week you're actually mad about the NFL and white heterosexual relationships. wild times for you all
Who is this 'you' to whom you refer? Are you assuming I'm an American conservative? Or any sort of conservative? Or on the political right? You'd be wrong on all counts. I just see the USA as being politically insane and moraly bankrupt wherever *you* sit on the US political spectrum.
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Anonymous Cowards get no mercy.
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Sure, 'conservative' media universe, like (the former) Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, Glenn Beck et al. tends to cater to the pieties of an older, whiter demographic whether that's fear of illegals, gold speculation, anti-mask paranoia, etc.
However left-wing out lets also have their own conspiratorial pieties. Just watch 10 mins of democracynow or look at the headlines of jacobin.com or thenation.com. Articles meant to spike the ire and get the clicks of lefty progressives
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there's a key difference though
progressives and stuff like Jacobin is still actually still fringe for the majority of normie democrats
Republicans embraced talk radio sensationalism to such a degree it has become the total mantra of the party, it is the mainstream, the fringe has taken over the party. it's why everyone has to bow before trump or face expulsion from the party. the nuts have taken over the asylum and the staff invited them to do it
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It is a form of lying... (Score:2)
As is fraud, slander and a whole host of other names for the same thing.
If intentionally misleading people is criminal, then using AI to mislead people is criminal.
Of course then so should the right to lying to the public be criminal, and from all I can see it seems to be protected under the first amendment. (If you are a US person, at least)
Turkeys voting for Christmas (Score:2)
Of course then so should the right to lying to the public be criminal
Good luck getting any politicians to vote for such a law. The phrase turkeys voting for Christmas comes to mind.
Re:It is a form of lying... (Score:5, Insightful)
If intentionally misleading people is criminal
Intentionally misleading people is NOT a crime.
You are free to lie.
The burden is on the people you lied to to show your statements were false, a reasonable person wouldn't know they were false, and they suffered tangible harm.
Even then, it is more likely a tort than a crime.
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Thank you for making my point.
The fact that you are free to lie in the US, and that it is viewed as protected speech is mind-boggling.
Lying is lying.. but when you write down that lie it somehow becomes fraud, which is illegal?
If you lie about someone's character it is libel, which is punishable by law?
It should be illegal to lie. Sure, you can say what you want, but you should also be held to account for the consequences of those words. The first amendment does not give you a get out of jail free card to s
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The fact that you are free to lie in the US
This has nothing to do with the U.S.
Lying is not a crime in any country.
Feel free to prove me wrong by providing a citation.
Of course, lying can be a necessary element of many crimes, such as fraud and slander, but it is not the lie that is illegal. In many countries, it is a crime to lie to the police, but only about material facts. Lying is a crime when it enables or covers up other crimes. That is true in all countries, and America is no exception.
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What's new, though?
"unlawful dissemination or publication of a fabricated photograph" - you mean like netziens have been doing since time immemorial with Photoshop / Gimp?
The law should be based on the act, not the tool (Score:2)
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I kind of agree, but I see no reason to single out AI. The bill should cover all forms of deceptive or fraudulent uses of a person's likeness regardless of the tools used to create it.
It has become painfully obvious that the NY Governor has never been made aware of of slander/libel laws.
I grow tired of "new" laws/bills suggested when we don't even bother enforcing old laws. Screams of corruption.
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I grow tired of "new" laws/bills suggested when we don't even bother enforcing old laws. Screams of corruption.
Perhaps it's acceptable to look at this as the spirit of the old laws getting addendums so that they are less likely to be circumvented in judge-shopped corner cases, or more to the point, defining more clearly who is culpable in such situations. "It wasn't me, it was the one-armed AI!"
Consequences demand accountability (Score:2)
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Even WITH consequences AI is going to wreak havoc on society. But if we do it right the benefits will outweigh the problems. (Then the problem is ensuring that the benefits help those that these changes disadvantage.)
while we're at it (Score:3)
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Oh lawd here we go (Score:3)
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Define "fabricated."
Anything that came out of the mouth of a politician.
Note he doesn't want to criminalize deception (Score:2)
At least in non-artificial intelligence.
Else we can reopen Alcatraz and move Washington there.
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I would have said Madison Avenue. But we can make room for them too.
First Amendment abridgement (Score:2)
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
In the U.S., Government regulation, restrictions, and bans that rub up against the First Amendment are generally introduced by the least educated politicians with the lowest respect for liberty... and almost always end up bein
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In the U.S., Government regulation, restrictions, and bans that rub up against the First Amendment are generally introduced by the least educated politicians with the lowest respect for liberty... and almost always end up being overturned after wasting endlines time and dollars grinding through the legal system.
The bad guys only have to win once, the good guys have to win every time. Thankfully, we still have groups dedicated to the fight.
I'll grant that false images and statements of politicians made with malicious intent is a bad thing for society, but the fact that people believe those falsehoods is a failure of the politicians to maintain a stable political opinion. I.e. They flip flop too much, and as a result, the public has zero confidence that the latest propaganda against the politician is false. Furth
Lying is legal. Deception is legal. Fraud is not (Score:1)
Someone should educate Ms. Hochul on the difference between a lie (you look beautiful, Kathy), deception (oh sorry I was out late working with my secretary, Kathy) and fraud (I borrowed your governor's credit card to buy a vacation for two to Tahiti. My secretary will send you pics.)
Then there's always that pesky 1st Am thing.
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everything (Score:2)
Everything not compulsory is prohibited.
This is just great (Score:2)