Cracking down on stolen wages

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Wage theft — employers paying less than the minimum for time worked — is believed to be extremely common across the U.S. Often, rules against it are hard to enforce. We’ll visit one county that’s tackling the issue by putting food permits on the line for restaurant owners who won’t pay up. Plus, Google has new political advertising AI rules and 74 million Americans will gamble on NFL games this season.

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0:00.0	I'm David Brancatio.
0:05.6	In New York, Google has some new rules for artificial intelligence used to craft political
0:11.8	advertising.
0:13.2	Starting in November, advertisers on Google have to reveal if their messages contain potentially
0:18.1	misleading AI-driven manipulations.
0:21.4	Marketplaces Nancy Marshall-Genzer explains.
0:23.6	It'll work like this.
0:25.0	If you're posting a political ad on Google and it has AI-generated content that to quote
0:30.3	Google, inauthentically depicts real or realistic looking people or events, you have to disclose
0:36.4	that.
0:37.4	And Google says the disclosure has to be clear and conspicuous in a place where it is likely
0:42.6	to be noticed by users.
0:44.9	This will apply to AI content that could trick voters because it makes it look like someone
0:49.5	said or did something they didn't say or do.
0:53.0	The rule also covers real or fake footage of an event that was altered by AI to show
0:57.8	things that didn't actually happen.
1:00.4	Ads like this have already started popping up.
1:03.1	Back in June, Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign shared a video on Twitter, now X, that
1:08.8	appeared to show former President Trump kissing Anthony Fauci, the former White House chief
1:14.0	medical adviser.
1:15.4	The video was a fake.
1:17.2	Google's new policy covers pictures, audio and video.
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