🤔 AI is being used for despicable things.

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” —Albert Einstein

We’re going to peek at the dark side of AI and how we need to do something about it.

In today’s newsletter:

• AI is being used for despicable things. — And I'm not talking about the movie

• Legislation

• Learn

Penses

After playing ‘titi’ to two four-year-olds for two weeks, I’ve had the time to contemplate the world they will be raised in. It’s not pretty.

So here’s my caution for this pense. Warning: the topics today may be traumatizing. This is a serious non-sarcastic warning.

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AI deepfakes have a far wider implication than just robocalls, job scams, and political ammo. Pedophiles can make deepfake images of your children. Exes can make deep fake porn of you. You can have videos of you being fake r*ped circulating the internet for all eternity.

Forget your employers seeing it. your great great grandchildren could see it.

This inhumane disconnected violation doesn’t require much effort either. Id protection services will need to start protecting more than your social security and credit card numbers. They will need to start protecting your face.

In many ways, I’d prefer for my social security number to be stolen over my face.

So what’s being done about it?

Nothing that I know of. If you do send it my way, this is something Data scientists should be volunteering to help with.

As far as laws go, it seems we will have the actors SAG-AFTRA fighting for the right to change federal intellectual property rights law. The woman I know as The Nanny who now apparently has a whole name is the president spearheading this fight.

But the law isn’t always capable of dissuading illegal activity especially if it’s prosecutors are unable to find someone to sue.

In the case of sexual content, I hope this ends up following under criminal prosecution with steep sentences.

Oh and the FCC is trying to require robocallers to say it’s an AI generated call. Considering I still get robocalls and I don’t know how to make them stop. I’m not hopeful. Read more here

Read more here about the SAG-AFTRA and here about the deepfake sexual content.

Legislation

• The Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act was introduced to Congress in March. Read more here.

• A summary of Deceptive Audio or Visual Media (‘Deepfakes’) 2024 Legislation in each State can be found here.

• UK legislation passed deepfake criminalization bill in April 2024. Read more here.

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