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Cali's AG Tells AI Companies Almost Everything They're Doing Might Be Illegal
According to a recent legal memo, Silicon Valley's hottest business may be entirely based around criminal activity.
On January 13th, California AG Rob Bonta issued two legal advisories that illustrate all of the myriad areas where the AI industry could be getting itself into trouble. California’s memo makes clear that companies that use AI to create “deepfakes, chatbots, and voice clones that appear to represent people, events, and utterances that never existed” could fall under the category of “deceptive” and, thus, be considered a breach of state law. The fact that the advisory says that all of these activities “may” break the law seems to signal that companies should effectively sell-regulate, lest they stray into criminal territory and tempt the state to take action against them.
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