Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints | WIRED

At some point the battle against deep fakes is going to run into wholly-fabricated fake content which is neither copyrightable nor copyrighted… at which point DMCA will surely cease to be a useful tool unless augmented by “image rights” for individuals.

But that cure might be worse than the disease; I’m not convinced that copyright-style “fair use” provisions overriding “image rights” will adequately protect satire and political commentary, not least attacks upon it via some sort of SLAPP-like mechanism.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepfake-porn-dmca-takedowns/

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2 responses to “Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints | WIRED”

  1. Brandon

    @alecm the SLAPP point is interesting, because that’s my main worry regarding a universal image right. I researched this back when the second draft of the US’s No AI FRAUD Act came out, and I concluded that personal image rights aren’t a workable component of a permanent solution to the deepfake problem.

    But I do agree that DMCA and fair use don’t make sense in the current AI context. If the issue is impersonation (with a worry that the tech could cause someone to appear to say something they wouldn’t actually say), then the more transformative the deepfake is, the more it probably strays from that person’s actual viewpoint.

    1. alecm

      I don’t suppose you published these thoughts anywhere? 🙂

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