Elon Musk's social platform X files lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging a law prohibiting the use of deepfakes to influence elections
Elon Musk's social platform X files lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging a law prohibiting the use of deepfakes to influence elections
The social media platform X, run by Elon Musk, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Minnesota law barring the use of deepfakes to influence an election.
Well, this is a solid admission that they are going to use deep fakes to influence elections.
Are least it's evidence that worry they might need to need to influence anther election.
Silver lining...?
Noo we just demand this specific instance of deregulation because... uh, it theoretically might help small businesses!
Also why would you even care about anything other than short-term GDP increase. Are you some kind of communist?!?
Minnesota scraps that law and uses Elon's deepfakes to claim he wants to destroy Medicare
Elon calls for laws banning deepfakes
"what do you mean we can't use fake misleading videos to fuck democracy?"
"The rules were you guys weren't gonna fact check."
How isn't this immediately a red flag?
There are so many flags right now it’s just a sea of red undulations. Done by design, so that we don’t notice the death of democracy.
They overwhelm everyone knowing that 80% of this shit is gonna get outlawed or overturned, but that 20% that gets through is gonna be huge for them.
because one side is prioritizing democratic principles and the other is making an argument that could be related to the first amendment. Twitter absolutely isn't doing this for any good reason, but the argument could be used for one.
can elon and linda hurry up and die already
Rich people live a lot longer than us.
There's a way to fix that, but we have been convinced we need to "stay civil" while the rich fuck us over.
Can we join forces and spam X with a flood of Informative deep fakes of select individuals?
You could, but it would just be limited reach. There is no way to fight back using his own platform beyond just not going there.
Something that has been bothering me lately. Reasonable people who counter the toxic misinformation leaving the platform only allows the disease to grow and spread. But reality is they weren't reaching the people that needed the dose of reality anyway. And then I realized that the algorithms have always been the disease, my feeds are my own echo chamber to drive engagement, just as theirs are. I've pretty much cut all social networks out. The only way to change minds is honest respectable conversation, and I am not a person to change anyone's mind.
We're fucked
Link me some and I'll have fun with it.
This is what the right is doing, while the DNC is censuring their own members for simply encouraging democrats to run against their own apathetic incumbents.
You misspelled pathetic.
"You guys aren't gonna use AI for bad stuff, right?"
Tech oligarchs: whaaaaaat no we actually want to be regulated because of how dangerous this technology is!! Also tech oligarchs:
"The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check."
Delivering that line with such glee like he thought he had some sort of high ground.
Makes me sick.
So is their position that deception via impersonation is free speech?
Who can make a deep fake of der Elon professing his love for trans people? Wherein he states that he was wrong about the woke mind virus. That he wishes he had been born to a black family.
Remember when this stuff was called "the quiet part', and it was considered bad when you said it out loud?
Yeah...good times.
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Why would they want to "influence elections"?
Sounds shady.
It's a huge part of the business model. Social Media is valuable for its data on people, and for its ability to manipulate and influence people.
What a fucking chode.
If you need it to be legal to deepfake to manipulate politics you’re the problem.
Cool. Let's go with criminal impersonation, defamation, and slander/libel instead them!
Here the guy that was going to leave politics and go back to Tesla.
Now now, fElon was simply placating Tesla investors on a very dark earnings call day.
Somehow I think they all wish for him to stay as far from the Tesla brand as possible.
And the Fake News crowd goes wild! By the way, that's conservatives and all of their media.
X’s lawsuit claims the law’s “requirements are so vague and unintelligible that social media platforms cannot understand what the statute permits and what it prohibits.”
Vague, overly broad laws are indeed a problem; I’m willing to give him that. ONLY that.
Unfortunately for Musk, this is not vague. If the footage is something you created or manipulated, you know perfectly damn well whether it’s legal or not. He’s trying to confuse the issue, and conflate fraud with free speech. Hopefully, the court will see right through him.
Easy solution would be for the state to show up with an AI generated video of him giving an explanation as to why he (Elon) has no clue what he is talking about and this is obviously the greatest law ever.
Or maybe take the opposite stance…lol
The easier solution is to say that since it's too hard for X to do, X doesn't get to operate anymore and shut X down.
X’s lawsuit claims the law’s “requirements are so vague and unintelligible that social media platforms cannot understand what the statute permits and what it prohibits.”
The issue with this argument is that social media platforms aren't required to enforce it? https://www.sos.mn.gov/media/5626/deep-fake-overview.pdf
IAs far as I read this correctly, the law prohibits creating such media but does not hold the websites accountable for publishing the media.
It does indeed sound vague as to what the social media site should do.
“How will we win if we can’t cheat?”
He doesn't even know you, and a ctrl-f of your profile shows you've commented on 3 Elon posts in the last 10 comments. He lives in your head rent-free
He lives in your head rent-free
What a freeloader! He should pay up.
you've commented twice in this thread?
don't know what's more pathetic. the fact that you took the time to stalk me or that you tried to discourage me from making fun of a washed up drug addict.
“A ctrl+f of your profile”
Holy stalker Batman!
just bc youve had a bad day doesn't mean you need to spread that to everyone
"Wait a minute. Are we the baddies?"
I can place a pretty hefty bet that this thought has not visited Elmos head.
I don’t think good and bad are concepts he is capable of understanding, like empathy.
My state will see you in court.
MAY I LIE TO INFLUENCE ELECTIONS? yes, but.... FUCK YOU, I'LL LIE ANYWAY ON AN OVERLY ADVERTISED AND PROMOTED PLATFORM EVERYONE IS FORCED TO USE
How are people forced to use it. I’ve never used it.
Gee, I wonder why.
They did more than influence the past election, and have plans to do the same in the upcoming ones... so ofcourse any regulation against these plans must be taken away.
Elon, go crawl into a hole and stay there for the rest of your life. Ok?
I don't agree with it, but there's a good chance they'll win on the basis of the 1st Amendment.
But Does he have FAS, though? This Pic!
If you can’t fake your way into power your standing in the way of MAGAts.