Showing how easy it is to make deepfakes of politicians using artificial intelligence, independent senator David Pocock creates AI videos of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
Your first paragraph about the politics and news media, yeah generally agree with.
The point about ethics in the news media i see as part of the problem surrounding the Australian Press Council and their principle funders being the organisations they supposedly investigate. Its an ethics system set up to generate conflicts of interest. The media have a watch dog that’s more like a chew toy.
We are calling on Minister Farrell to legislate a ban on the use of deepfakes in elections before the next federal election.
From the change.org petition.
Seems that Pocock is referring to AI deepfakes’ use in elections. Maybe i haven’t read the parts your referring to?
While i see no actual wording because i’ve not seen an example of a proposed legislation, I would assume that its wording would be vague enough to potentially catch many people, likely including individual citizens. Aus courts would, as they always try to, sort out the chaff through testing intent of parties accused of using deepfakes. But thats me speculating, and i see nothing other than the quote above to suggest how far they’d go, so “in elections”?.
Your last paragraph is the part i disagree with you on. Its not pissing in the wind to regulate a large company, in fact its a necessity for smaller countries like Australia.
Like you say, targeting these large tech companies makes sense, and like the news media bargaining showed, it can be done. Whatever we think about that particular issue, the tech companies played the governments game. Large countries can find all sorts of excuses to not find consensus, and sometimes need that leading example, and in telecommunications cases it can’t really be a US State that takes the lead, like they can on other issues, but a separate country. I think its due to telecommunications law being federal jurisdiction.
Your first paragraph about the politics and news media, yeah generally agree with.
The point about ethics in the news media i see as part of the problem surrounding the Australian Press Council and their principle funders being the organisations they supposedly investigate. Its an ethics system set up to generate conflicts of interest. The media have a watch dog that’s more like a chew toy.
Seems that Pocock is referring to AI deepfakes’ use in elections. Maybe i haven’t read the parts your referring to?
While i see no actual wording because i’ve not seen an example of a proposed legislation, I would assume that its wording would be vague enough to potentially catch many people, likely including individual citizens. Aus courts would, as they always try to, sort out the chaff through testing intent of parties accused of using deepfakes. But thats me speculating, and i see nothing other than the quote above to suggest how far they’d go, so “in elections”?.
Your last paragraph is the part i disagree with you on. Its not pissing in the wind to regulate a large company, in fact its a necessity for smaller countries like Australia.
Like you say, targeting these large tech companies makes sense, and like the news media bargaining showed, it can be done. Whatever we think about that particular issue, the tech companies played the governments game. Large countries can find all sorts of excuses to not find consensus, and sometimes need that leading example, and in telecommunications cases it can’t really be a US State that takes the lead, like they can on other issues, but a separate country. I think its due to telecommunications law being federal jurisdiction.