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[SanAndreasX]

Jaicee said:

Ryuu96 said:

I knew politicians would finally start doing something about AI once they feel the fear about it, AI Deepfakes has no allegiance, someone can just as easy make some AI Deepfake porn of Ted Cruz as they could Amy Klobuchar. It's a start but there needs to be a lot more laws and regulation on all this AI shit. This is the bare minimum but it's a good start.

Along with a total ban on non-consensual AI deepfakes, we need massive fines for using AI in political campaigns and a total ban on using any AI in political campaigns, especially in the forms of deepfake voices and apply those fines to the companies that host the content if they don't remove it in time. We're heading towards an extremely dangerous future with AI if regulation and restrictions don't come in soon.

I've already seen big examples of AI deepfakes used in political campaigns and spread on platforms like Twitter.

Matter-of-factly, I often struggle to think of good uses for this tech and it seems that I'm not alone in feeling that way, as Pew's latest survey on the subject of artificial intelligence found that just 17% of Americans believe that A.I. will have a net positive impact on American life over the next couple decades. I share this profound sense of optimism because I'm already seeing lots of A.I.'s ramifications right now. For example, I listen to a lot of music in the time I spend online if you haven't noticed, and YouTube every so often recommends me A.I.-generated tunes. They can best be described as lifeless, generic, and often comically error-prone garbage and as much should surprise no one. The defining quality of art, after all, is that it expresses someone's feelings about things and machines don't have feelings. A large percentage of the ads I see online nowadays are likewise clearly A.I.-generated in a way that causes me more than just the usual irritation of ads being there; it causes me pain to see them because they're so goddamn bizarre and creepy, like hideous, nonsensical mismatches between images and text. Normal ads are just a nuisance. A.I. ads give me the shivers. Machine logic fucking creeps me out! Those are just two of the benefits of this miraculous technology I get to experience every day of my life now and I wish it would just...go...away!! Far, far away. (Well okay, it can stay in video games, but you know what I mean.)

But there are more benefits, even beyond these and deepfakes! Artificial intelligence also poses a serious risk to the future of entire careers ranging from those of factory workers and truck drivers (yep, self-driving trucks, they say, are the future) to, perhaps most distressingly, public-facing occupations like cashiering. I'm most concerned about the latter, tbh, because of what it represents in terms of further disconnecting human beings from other human beings. Speaking of, the technology is also currently being used by many a lonely man as an alternative to dating actual women. This way he needn't become more sociable or accommodating and instead learns to think of dating as a service to him and of women as basically machines who's task in life is to provide subservience and unconditional flattery and approval. Chatbot girlfriends aren't exactly improving the dating pool, in other words. Indeed A.I. chatbots have already begun accruing a human death toll, successfully convincing some people to take their own lives. And the algorithms behind them will only get more sophisticated.

But am I just being a luddite here? Maybe the potential benefits outweigh the problems and I'm just not seeing it? Well until I see otherwise, I think this technology should very strictly controlled.

 I agree with this law as a protection for women (and men). 

But I do not trust Pam Bondi to enforce this fairly or to not weaponize it against criticism of Trump or Musk. 

Last edited by SanAndreasX - on 04 May 2025