Defining the difference between satire and electioneering may be tough. Then there's the line between obvious cartoons and other animations ranging from drawings to full out AI deep fakes. Lots of lawyers looking forward to increased income.
As used in this section, "synthetic media" means (i) images or audio recordings of real events relating to an identifiable individual that have been intentionally altered in a manner that would cause a reasonable person (a) to mistakenly believe that the manipulated image or audio is a recording of a real event and (b) to have a fundamentally different understanding or impression of the expressive content of the image or audio than such person would have if the person were hearing or seeing the unaltered, original version of the image or audio and (ii) artificially generated images, audio, or video that are not composed from a discernable original source image, audio, or video recording of real or staged events of an identifiable individual's appearance, conduct, or speech that would cause a reasonable person to mistakenly believe that the artificially generated image, audio, or video is a recording of a real event.
While that is a fucked up hard to parse definition and will likely be reinterpreted for political gain, it is clearly attempting to target AI generated video. Framing this as "criminalizing political memes" is bullshit.
So how many months before the supreme Court basically says they're a bunch of idiots and repeals it?
After it's ruined several people's livelihoods and a replacement bill has been drafted.
Yeah, you don't have standing to challenge it until you're dragged through the courts.
YOU don't have standing to challenge it, ever. Only rich people who can afford to drop a million bucks in legal fees as a for fun side project can.
Maybe after the midterms
Whoops no standing.
The judiciary is the enemy of the American people.
Never. Why would they repeal it?
How very fragile of them.
The memes will be political until politics improves.
Probably threatened to durkadurka muhammadjihad himself if he didn't get to write it.
Lol good fucking luck!
The only way for left to win meme war is to ban memes
Pathetic
strong american name
Saddam….where have I heard that name before?
Defining the difference between satire and electioneering may be tough. Then there's the line between obvious cartoons and other animations ranging from drawings to full out AI deep fakes. Lots of lawyers looking forward to increased income.
The definition from the bill:
While that is a fucked up hard to parse definition and will likely be reinterpreted for political gain, it is clearly attempting to target AI generated video. Framing this as "criminalizing political memes" is bullshit.