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Stop Expecting Tech Companies to Provide 'Consequences' for Criminal Behavior
Whose job is it to provide consequences when someone breaks the law? It seems like this issue shouldn’t be that complicated. We expect law enforcement to deal with it when someone breaks the law. N…
Dazhon Darien, 31, was arrested Thursday on charges of stalking, theft, disruption of school operations and retaliation against a witness after a monthslong investigation from the Baltimore County Police Department. This received plenty of attention as an example of the kind of thing people are worried about regarding “deepfakes” and whatnot: where someone is accused of doing something they didn’t by faking proof via AI tools. Farid said there remains, generally, a lackluster response from regulators reluctant to put checks and balances on tech companies that develop these tools or to establish laws that properly punish wrongdoers and protect people.
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