First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people

First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people

Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law banning “nudification” technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of artificial intelligence.

Musk’s company sued on Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect on Saturday and make Minnesota the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use AI to create fake nude images of real people. The law was signed in May.

  • fonix232@fedia.io
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    16 days ago

    It’s quite simple - by allowing this type of genAI to take hold and have no guardrails, any and all future allegations against the Epstein class can be dismissed with a “fake news, that’s AI” claim.

    And since AI is getting better and better at generating images while getting worse and worse at recognising AI generated content…

    • frunch@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 days ago

      That’s a good point. I’ve read that AI medical assistants will function in a way that will effectively make them work as an accountability shield. The AI would be calling the shots and the doctors will be the ‘guardrails’ and when mistakes are made it won’t be the AI to blame, but the doctor who failed to catch it’s error.