From ABC News
Bill would criminalize ‘extremely harmful’ online ‘deepfakes’
By Emmanuelle Saliba
Newly introduced legislation seeks to protect individuals nationwide from being misrepresented by certain kinds of digital content known as “deepfakes,” a category that includes deceptive political messages, computer-generated sexual abuse material and more.
“We know that weaponized deception can be extremely harmful to our society,” said Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., who authored the proposal and introduced it last week in the House, reviving a proposal she previously put forth in 2019. “This bill is meant to take us into the 21st century and establish a baseline so we can discern who is intending to harm us...”
“We are already seeing [political groups] using generative AI to try to harm their opponents,” University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor Hany Farid told ABC News.
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley and a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project.
