AI Deepfakes Are Everywhere and Congress is Completely Out of Their Depth

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

An AI-generated Biden called voters in New Hampshire ahead of the primary and told them to stay home. X locked down the search term “Taylor Swift” after AI-generated nudes of the pop giant flooded the platform. In the wake of both scandals, Congress has struggled with how to fight back against the flood of fake bullshit. Keeping the world from drowning in fakes affects all of us, but some of the cures sound worse than the sickness.

This week on Cyber, Motherboard Senior Editor Janus Rose and Fight for the Future’s Lia Holland come on to talk about the limits of legislation around AI-generated scams and abuse.

Stories discussed in this episode.

Congress Is Trying to Stop AI Nudes and Deepfake Scams Because Celebrities Are Mad

Taylor Swift Is Living Every Woman’s AI Porn Nightmare

‘Palworld’ Is Tearing the Internet Apart

An AI-Generated Content Empire Is Spreading Fake Celebrity Images on Google

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0:00.0	Hey there's cyber listeners, Matthew here. Just a quick show note at the beginning of the episode.
0:04.5	We get into legislation around artificial intelligence in this episode. It's a really great
0:09.8	conversation. I want to note that hours after we got done recording this call, the Federal
0:14.8	Communications Commission declared that the use of AI generated voices in robocalls is a scam and is illegal.
0:23.5	And the way they did this was pretty interesting because it was not new laws.
0:27.9	It was using old laws to basically confirm that this new technology falls under the auspices of a scam.
0:35.8	It was essentially a ruling that used the Telephone Consumer Protection Act,
0:40.9	which is from 1991, to say that, you know, generating a fake voice and calling someone and trying
0:49.8	to get them to do something is a scam. As we talk about in this episode, this happened because before the New Hampshire primary,
0:57.7	voters were getting calls from an AI-generated Biden who was telling them not to vote.
1:01.8	So again, this happened literally hours after we got done having this conversation.
1:07.2	And that is why it is not mentioned in this episode.
1:16.5	Music and that is why it is not mentioned in this episode. Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch.
1:21.1	It's a unit system.
1:23.6	I know this.
1:25.5	It's all the files of the old park.
1:27.7	It tells her everything.
1:29.5	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
1:32.2	Eagle one.
1:33.0	The package is being delivered.
1:38.0	All right, so we are with Leah and Janice.
1:42.6	Can you all introduce yourselves?
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