You may have followed the news that California’s Governor Gavin Gruesome sought and achieved a statute, AB 2329, outlawing AI-generated “deep fake” political communications ahead of elections.
This statute is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, and wouldn’t survive the first five minutes of a Supreme Court oral argument. But it takes time (and a lot of money) to get a case all the way up to the Supreme Court. Better just to turn Ted Frank, of the Hamilton-Lincoln Law Institute, loose on the issue. Frank filed for, and was awarded a preliminary injunction:
More of this please.
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