Over 400 Experts Call for New Laws to Regulate Harmful Deepfakes
• Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, Andrew Yang, and AI expert Yoshua Bengio among over 400 people calling for deepfake regulation • Letter urges governments to pass laws criminalizing deepfake child pornography and establish penalties for creating/spreading harmful deepfakes • Suggests requiring developers to prevent products from creating harmful deepfakes and holding them liable if measures are too easily circumvented • Deepfakes pose growing risks as AI technology becomes more widely available and realistic • Recent incidents include AI-generated explicit images of Taylor Swift, Biden imitation robocalls in New Hampshire, and FCC ban on AI voices in robocalls