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Congressional Hearing on AI Deepfake Protections Raises Questions Over Ownership


“Our voices and likenesses are… not mere digital kibble for a machine to duplicate without consent,” Lainey Wilson told members of Congress

Country star Lainey Wilson and Recording Academy president/CEO Harvey Mason voiced their support for federal regulation of AI technology at a hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet in Los Angeles on Friday (Feb. 2). For this reason, the academy is grateful for the introduction of the No AI FRAUD Act,” a bill announced in January that aims to establish a federal framework for protecting voice and likeness. Rep. KevinKiley[R – CA] alluded to the debate over whether or not the singer would be able to make it to the Super Bowl from her performance in Tokyo, while Rep. NathanielMoran[R – TX] joked, “I have not mentioned Travis Kelce’s girlfriend once during this testimony.”)

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