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Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill To Regulate Use Of AI Digital Replicas And Limit Deepfakes
Senate and House lawmakers today reintroduced legislation that will give individuals the right to control the use of their digital likeness, as part of an effort to limit the use of AI deepfakes and voice clones. The No Fakes Act was introduced last year, but failed to advance in Congress even with bipartisan support and […]
Capitol Building, Washington DCGetty Senate and House lawmakers today reintroduced legislation that will give individuals the right to control the use of their digital likeness, as part of an effort to limit the use of AI deepfakes and voice clones. Last year, at a hearing on proposed legislation, the Motion Picture Association warned that the bill would violate the First Amendment, as its broad scope would have required that filmmakers get approval before putting historic figures in movies like Forrest Gump. But studios eventually threw their support behind the legislation, with updated language that carves out exclusions for projects such as documentaries and biographical works, or for purposes of comment, criticism, or parody, among others.
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