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The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes (www.wired.com)
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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

As Mary Anne Franks, a George Washington University law professor and a leading advocate for strict anti-deepfake rules, told WIRED in an email, “The obvious flaw in the ‘We already have laws to deal with this’ argument is that if this were true, we wouldn't be witnessing an explosion of this abuse with no corresponding increase in the filing of criminal charges.”

We’re certainly witnessing an explosion of media coverage of abusive deepfakes, as with coverage of everything else AI-related. But if there’s no increase in criminal cases, what’s the evidence that the “explosion” is more than that?