Three US Senators introduced bill that aims to rein in the rise and use of AI generated content and deepfakes by protecting the work of artists, songwriters and journalists.
The recently introduced Content Original Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media (COPIED) Act is a bipartisan effort authorized by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), according to a press alert issued by Blackburn’s office.
The COPIED ACT would, if enacted, create transparency standards through the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) to set guidelines for “content provenance information, watermarking, and synthetic content detection,” according to the press release.
Labour rights, privacy rights, antitrust enforcement, cooyrights, DRM, maybe more.
I’d just argue that it’s hard to say that this law is more or less important than that law, because it will depend on who you are. If you’re a tech worker you’d likely be focused on labour rights, if you’re an author it might be copyrights, for example. So we should protect all whose rights are violated.