Can Congress Stop Celebrity Deepfakes on Social Media?
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tech News briefing is supported by F.T.I. Consulting |
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| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. |
| 0:22.0 | It's Friday November 10th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:26.0 | Have you seen social media ads with Tom Hanks Hawking a dental plan or CBS Anchor Gail King pushing dubious weight loss products. |
| 0:34.0 | The goods may be sketchy, but the spokespeople were definitely fake. |
| 0:39.0 | A growing number of celebrities say scammers are using AI-generated deep fakes of their likenesses, and it's |
| 0:45.8 | unclear if social media companies can effectively stop them from spreading. |
| 0:50.2 | So how about Congress? Our reporter Patrick Coffey joins us later in the show to break down a pair of bills from the House and the Senate |
| 0:58.0 | that would let celebrities and ordinary people take legal action against scam marketers using their likeness. |
| 1:04.0 | But first, after 118 days, the Actor's Strike is over. |
| 1:14.4 | Labor Union Sag Aftera has reached a tentative agreement |
| 1:17.4 | with major studios and streamers. |
| 1:19.8 | The agreement ends months of tense negotiations between the Union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television producers, which represents companies like Netflix, Disney, Warner Brothers Discovery, and Amazon. |
| 1:31.0 | Our entertainment reporter, Joe Flint Flint says the actor secured some solid |
| 1:35.4 | victories from the studios. The actors union said that the contract is |
| 1:40.6 | valued at more than one billion and they got a giant wage increase, new |
| 1:45.9 | residuals which are essentially royalties for streaming programs and also a streaming participation bonus as well. |
| 1:56.4 | So these were all big wins. |
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