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Judge blocks new California law barring distribution of election-related AI deepfakes
A federal judge has blocked AB 2839 from being enforced in California. It would prohibit a person or an organization from knowingly distributing AI deepfakes featuring political candidates.
Anybody who sees those deepfakes can file a civil action against the person who distributed it, and a judge can order the poster to take the manipulated media down if they don't want to face monetary penalties. The judge likened YouTube videos, Facebook posts and X tweets to newspaper advertisements and political cartoons and asserted that the First Amendment "protects an individual’s right to speak regardless of the new medium these critiques may take." The biggest news stories this morning: Tesla stops selling its cheapest car, Students used Meta's smart glasses to automatically dox strangers, OpenAI rakes in over $6 billion in new funding.
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