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.
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.