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Nothing short of hard financial and/or legal ramifications will stifle this kind of election interference. If it's not stopped now, it will take root and fester.
Here's the most important bit I think:
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) advanced a proposal last week to force advertisers to disclose the use of AI in advertisements on television and radio. The use of mimic voices is already banned for use in robocalls.
“Bad actors are already using AI technology in robocalls to mislead consumers and misinform the public. That’s why we want to put in place rules that empower consumers to avoid this junk and make informed decisions,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said earlier this month.
The FCC proposal would not apply to ads and video online and on streaming services, including the video shared by Musk.
I don’t think rules can help since the courts will just rule they can’t do that.
Doesn't the overturning of Chevron do exactly that, making it impossible for the FCC to create rules without explicit laws passed by Congress?
It will be fun to see how next generation of liberal leaning car buyers will view Tesla brand
We were honestly considering one, but my wife sited the lack of charging stations if we go on extended trips during vacation, and we both think he's an unmitigated asshole and refuse to buy anything associated with him.
Considering the number of reports that they are garbage, I think we dodged a bullet, lol.
We got a Honda CRV Hybrid and couldn't be happier. Next one is going to be totally electric but not a Tesla
Ditto. For my next car I went from why not a Tesla to anything but a Tesla.
I considered one for a while before he revealed himself to be a racist, fascist, man-child.
Now I'll never own one, I've been looking into the Hyundai EVs and honestly they seem much more reasonably priced anyway.
Their profits dropped by half last quarter.
The future is now!
Haha. Takes fire. Careful Elon, you’re not Iron, man.
Phony Stark
No, my house was on fire and now I'm homeless. I'm willing to bet absolutely nothing happens to him
Is election interference not a crime in the US?
Musk also has the right to free speech. He can say what he wants, as his personal opinion.
It’s using technology to impersonate someone that’s wrong, but I don’t know if our laws have kept up. I don’t think there’s a limit unless the person impersonated sues for slander or something. It is further muddied that public personalities have less protection and parody is legally protected
And using a platform he bought to promote his ideas? Is having too much money free speech?
But the Freezed Peach and Marketplace Of Ideaz you guys!!!!
This would be more interesting if he was taking more literal fire.
Can't wait to use my free speech to build a guillotine.
Meanwhile Musk will face no actual consequences and X won't lose any users over this.
But rest assured he has definitely had his wrist (lightly) slapped.
The video was genuinely funny though, when she did her Obama impressions i laughed hard, so hes probably going to claim its a parody skit if he gets in real trouble.
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I could see some harsh humour in it as well, but it should clearly be labeled "parody". The way it was shared now is a terrible idea, but we've all seen it coming..
All media should have some securely signed source that's easily viewable and pops up at the start and end of the video (and is visible in the pause screen or on hover, also in case of an image). If it was not signed it should show that as well, like web TLS certificates.
If no internet is available it should show that it cannot verify the source without a connection. There should also be a proposed default date in which the baked in certificate might get less secure, which should also show in the media.
There's no way to mistake it as anything but parody. Holy shit.
I'd like to believe that as well, but sadly I've seen even more obvious stuff that some of the people I know use to validate their world views, even when it's clearly satire.
They just interpret the whole thing wrong and somehow filter jokes. And they use it, or parts of it, as fuel for their beliefs and share parts within their community without context.
You've watched it or read the transcript, right?
Of course. Perhaps I should add that I'm not from a native-English speaking country. I've seen lots of times where people, mostly not so highly educated (which is a large segment of the population), just don't see obvious satire as it is or in their hate make the jokes part of their argument set.
Partly because they only understand half of it or are willingly blinding themselves and just further fueling their rage.
Just saying, source / certificates might mitigate some of those issues or at least make them easier to debunk for the ones who they forward their 'evidence' too.
I think a service that certifies people identify would help a lot with online trolls. I do not know how it could be best implemented without privacy issues. However i am of the opinion that privacy online and not is very misused. So we can fight a losing battle, or we could all accept being associated with the things we post and say online. And if we accept a online identity that is linked with our real life identity we could uproot and rid ourselves of bots.
Super funny how Trump getting shot at has had no effect whatsoever on these headlines. 😆
Are we talking about the ad he created? Yeah its for hahas.... except some of the things in that ad was directly from her mouth.