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    Okay, I’m gonna be the one to say it: things like this wouldn’t be believable in good faith if people weren’t so used to being fucked over by their politicians all the time.

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    “Thing that everyone said was going to happen happens, but now it’s happened to one of our betters so it’s news.”

    Haven’t kids been killing themselves over deepfake porn being passed around school for years?

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    We’ve been warning about this for years. Now it’s too late, especially because the people in power have a vested interest in NOT policing deepfakes.

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      I think this is similar to the gerrymandering issue where, since only the Republicans have abused it for years, they have had 0 reason to vote for any legislation put up against it.

      Now that the D’s are doing it, they might consider the risk is higher than the reward with Gerrymandering and say nobody is allowed to do it.

      Just gotta start pumpin out gen images of Rs for them to reconsider their stance.

      To be clear, I am very against AI gen images. But, like you were saying, I don’t see any reason for them to take any action against it until it affects them.

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        The problem with this theory is that Republicans regularly say truly awful shit and it never sinks their career because their voters are horrible people themselves.

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          Their voter base is not the most educated, so they are VERY susceptible to misinformation. Also, they have raised their base to be extremely reactionary.

          It is not really the politicians these would be aimed at, even though some have very fragile egos and may act solely because it hurts their feefees.

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        Excellent comparison! I just fear that the GOP will always be more unscrupulous than the Dems, and so will ultimately always be OK with gerrymandering (or deep fakes, or what have you).

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          The good (horrible) thing about deepfakes is that pretty much anyone can produce them.

          Disclaimer: I am also vehemently against AI-generated garbage, but it is a curious double-standard that the conservatives embrace, which could be easily leveraged against them by many, many pissed off people 🤔

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            Two sides to every coin. They know very well that once everyone accepts that deepfakes exist, and that nearly anyone can make them, and they are difficult if not impossible to identify, then the age of photographic and video evidence is over. They want deepfakes out there because it means that if they get caught on camera or on a hot mic, they can immediately turn around and claim that it was a deepfake. Their base will believe it. It will be virtually impossible to get republican voters to hold them accountable then.

            Edit to add: The GOP base, being what they are, will gleefully believe deepfakes about democrats while completely dismissing those about republicans. It really is a win-win for them.

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    It’s a real worry. I watched a Rachel Maddow video on youtube recently and got several minutes in before I realised it was fake, it was very convincing. How is society going to function when none of us know what’s real and what’s not?

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      What would shock or surprise me is if in light of this “travesty”, any meaningful legislation gets drafted and passed.