Well, this is a solid admission that they are going to use deep fakes to influence elections.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Are least it's evidence that worry they might need to need to influence anther election.
Silver lining...?
Noo we just demand this specific instance of deregulation because... uh, it theoretically might help small businesses!
Also why would you even care about anything other than short-term GDP increase. Are you some kind of communist?!?
Minnesota scraps that law and uses Elon's deepfakes to claim he wants to destroy Medicare
Elon calls for laws banning deepfakes
can elon and linda hurry up and die already
Rich people live a lot longer than us.
So is their position that deception via impersonation is free speech?
Who can make a deep fake of der Elon professing his love for trans people? Wherein he states that he was wrong about the woke mind virus. That he wishes he had been born to a black family.
Something only a childish brat would even think to try
"what do you mean we can't use fake misleading videos to fuck democracy?"
"The rules were you guys weren't gonna fact check."
How isn't this immediately a red flag?
There are so many flags right now it’s just a sea of red undulations. Done by design, so that we don’t notice the death of democracy.
They overwhelm everyone knowing that 80% of this shit is gonna get outlawed or overturned, but that 20% that gets through is gonna be huge for them.
because one side is prioritizing democratic principles and the other is making an argument that could be related to the first amendment. Twitter absolutely isn't doing this for any good reason, but the argument could be used for one.
If you have to tell deliberate lies to influence people then that isn’t democracy. That’s fascism or at least a kakistocracy - the worst and stupidest rule because they can’t get elected otherwise. Fuck twisting the First Amendment into a tool of lies and corruption.
the problem I have is that the law (609.772) appears to not only apply to political content, but all content that is
"so realistic that a reasonable person would believe it depicts speech or conduct of an individual who did not in fact engage in such speech or conduct; " and made without consent and wintin 90 days of political party conventions or after absentee voting starts.
By the way it is written the "presidents play Minecraft" series which most informed people would fully understand was not made my any presidents would likely fall under this law.
I propose for every lie someone tells, we (we'll vote on who) gets to punch them in the face.
Can we join forces and spam X with a flood of Informative deep fakes of select individuals?
You could, but it would just be limited reach. There is no way to fight back using his own platform beyond just not going there.
Something that has been bothering me lately. Reasonable people who counter the toxic misinformation leaving the platform only allows the disease to grow and spread. But reality is they weren't reaching the people that needed the dose of reality anyway. And then I realized that the algorithms have always been the disease, my feeds are my own echo chamber to drive engagement, just as theirs are. I've pretty much cut all social networks out. The only way to change minds is honest respectable conversation, and I am not a person to change anyone's mind.
We're fucked
Link me some and I'll have fun with it.
My state will see you in court.
This is what the right is doing, while the DNC is censuring their own members for simply encouraging democrats to run against their own apathetic incumbents.
You misspelled pathetic.
Why would they want to "influence elections"?
Sounds shady.
It's a huge part of the business model. Social Media is valuable for its data on people, and for its ability to manipulate and influence people.
"The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check."
Delivering that line with such glee like he thought he had some sort of high ground.
Makes me sick.
"You guys aren't gonna use AI for bad stuff, right?"
Tech oligarchs: whaaaaaat no we actually want to be regulated because of how dangerous this technology is!! Also tech oligarchs:
Cool. Let's go with criminal impersonation, defamation, and slander/libel instead them!
Remember when this stuff was called "the quiet part', and it was considered bad when you said it out loud?
Yeah...good times.
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What a fucking chode.
If you need it to be legal to deepfake to manipulate politics you’re the problem.
X’s lawsuit claims the law’s “requirements are so vague and unintelligible that social media platforms cannot understand what the statute permits and what it prohibits.”
The issue with this argument is that social media platforms aren't required to enforce it? https://www.sos.mn.gov/media/5626/deep-fake-overview.pdf
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X’s lawsuit claims the law’s “requirements are so vague and unintelligible that social media platforms cannot understand what the statute permits and what it prohibits.”
Vague, overly broad laws are indeed a problem; I’m willing to give him that. ONLY that.
Unfortunately for Musk, this is not vague. If the footage is something you created or manipulated, you know perfectly damn well whether it’s legal or not. He’s trying to confuse the issue, and conflate fraud with free speech. Hopefully, the court will see right through him.
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And the Fake News crowd goes wild! By the way, that's conservatives and all of their media.
Elon Musk, Republican President who is literally BANKROLLING THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY, SUING because he can't Create Fake News with AI, is PROOF that DEMOCRATS are the Fake News!
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Next up: Elmo challenges laws that prohibit murder and child pornography, all in the name of a better world!
He had that fetish roleplay account where he pretended to be his toddler…
The dude is convinced he can "win" by out-procreating everyone else, it's obvious he has some very serious mental issues that need addressing but he'll never actually do the work required to be better. He's exactly like the Quiverfull people trying to out-populate their perceived enemies, assuming their descendents will follow their same credo.
“How will we win if we can’t cheat?”
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