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Explicit AI deepfakes of Taylor Swift have fans and lawmakers up in arms
Perhaps then it is not surprising to see calls from lawmakers in the U.S., Swift's home country, to further regulate the technology.
But there remain big questions about how to do so without stifling innovation or outlawing parody, fan art, and other unauthorized depictions of public figures that have traditionally been protected under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, which guarantees citizens rights to freedom of expression and speech. And the very spread of these AI-generated images has prompted renewed concern over the use of generative AI creation tools and their ability to create imagery that depicts real people — famous or otherwise — in compromising, embarrassing, and explicit situations. Direct the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to coordinate with other federal agencies to form a working group to assist in identifying AI-generated content and establish a framework on labeling AI.
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