“Turning a blind eye to X’s egregious behavior would make a mockery of your moderation practices,” three Democratic senators wrote to Apple’s and Google’s CEOs.
  • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
    38·
    2 days ago

    Were the senators themselves the victims of these deepfakes?

    Also, they’re the legislative branch. Why don’t they just create a law to prohibit sexual deepfakes and assess penalties from the companies with tolerance/ambivalence/apathy toward sexual deepfakes?

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      311·
      2 days ago

      That would require them to actually do their fucking jobs. Congress nowadays just takes orders from the dictator in office.

      • MacEnvy@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 days ago

        Are you under the impression that the senators calling for this have any power whatsoever to enact laws? John Thune runs the Senate schedule and he’s a loyalist.

    • kinkles@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      2 days ago

      I don’t have faith that such a law could get passed in a timely manner, if at all, with the current leadership. Especially if it would basically single out two of their biggest darlings- AI and Elon.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
      91·
      2 days ago

      Omg. We need to start generating sexual images of all the leaders in the government branches. Clarence blowing Donald while he eats Mike’s ass.

      That’s how we get them to regulate this shit.

      • SillyDude@lemmy.zip
        5·
        2 days ago

        That way if the Epstein files are ever released everyone in incriminating photos can just say it’s far left deepfakes?

        I’ve pretty convinced this is what they’re stalling for, and are generating the materials themselves.

        • titanicx@lemmy.zip
          3·
          2 days ago

          You know that’s already what they’re doing. And anything that comes out and anything that has come out they’ve already been stating that it’s AI or deep fake or photoshop I mean hell we had Photoshop way way before any sort of aid fake that’s just the latest buzzword being used.

    • Eh-I@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Were the senators themselves the victims of these deepfakes?

      Easily done, but ick.

  • Insekticus@aussie.zone
    181·
    2 days ago

    Urged? Why not threaten?

    “We will arrest your CEO and board of directors if you do not comply within 24 hours”

        • MacEnvy@lemmy.world
          26·
          2 days ago

          You have no basis whatsoever for believing this. All you’re doing is weakening the opposition and demoralizing the left. You may as well be working for MAGA.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            41·
            2 days ago

            First of all, yes I do.

            Second of all, the DNC is a sorry excuse for a supposed opposition and they’re certainly not the Left.

            Third of all, people like you reflexively vilifying everyone who criticize the corruption and ineptitude of the DNC leadership are who may as well be working for MAGA, as you’re keeping them in power by shielding the ones who lose eminently winnable elections to them from accountability.

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
    131·
    2 days ago

    Which. Fucking. Senators.

    three Democratic senators

    So nobody, nothing. The Dems have no power, let alone are mostly pussies or complacent.

    Sensationalist nothingburger headlines.

    • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
      25·
      2 days ago

      You know who has no power? The barely-ran green party who holds no seats, and the thrown-away votes that were so edgily withheld.

  • Kalon@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    Think about how much different our world would be if they had decided all those years ago that platforms are liable for the content they host.