Minnesota scraps that law and uses Elon's deepfakes to claim he wants to destroy Medicare
Elon calls for laws banning deepfakes
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Well, this is a solid admission that they are going to use deep fakes to influence elections.
Are least it's evidence that worry they might need to need to influence anther election.
Silver lining...?
Noo we just demand this specific instance of deregulation because... uh, it theoretically might help small businesses!
Also why would you even care about anything other than short-term GDP increase. Are you some kind of communist?!?
My state will see you in court.
So is their position that deception via impersonation is free speech?
Who can make a deep fake of der Elon professing his love for trans people? Wherein he states that he was wrong about the woke mind virus. That he wishes he had been born to a black family.
can elon and linda hurry up and die already
Rich people live a lot longer than us.
There's a way to fix that, but we have been convinced we need to "stay civil" while the rich fuck us over.
Something only a childish brat would even think to try
Can we join forces and spam X with a flood of Informative deep fakes of select individuals?
You could, but it would just be limited reach. There is no way to fight back using his own platform beyond just not going there.
Something that has been bothering me lately. Reasonable people who counter the toxic misinformation leaving the platform only allows the disease to grow and spread. But reality is they weren't reaching the people that needed the dose of reality anyway. And then I realized that the algorithms have always been the disease, my feeds are my own echo chamber to drive engagement, just as theirs are. I've pretty much cut all social networks out. The only way to change minds is honest respectable conversation, and I am not a person to change anyone's mind.
We're fucked
Link me some and I'll have fun with it.
How isn't this immediately a red flag?
because one side is prioritizing democratic principles and the other is making an argument that could be related to the first amendment. Twitter absolutely isn't doing this for any good reason, but the argument could be used for one.
If you have to tell deliberate lies to influence people then that isn’t democracy. That’s fascism or at least a kakistocracy - the worst and stupidest rule because they can’t get elected otherwise. Fuck twisting the First Amendment into a tool of lies and corruption.
the problem I have is that the law (609.772) appears to not only apply to political content, but all content that is
"so realistic that a reasonable person would believe it depicts speech or conduct of an individual who did not in fact engage in such speech or conduct; " and made without consent and wintin 90 days of political party conventions or after absentee voting starts.
By the way it is written the "presidents play Minecraft" series which most informed people would fully understand was not made my any presidents would likely fall under this law.
A reasonable person would not believe that that was made by the Presidents, though.
I propose for every lie someone tells, we (we'll vote on who) gets to punch them in the face.
There are so many flags right now it’s just a sea of red undulations. Done by design, so that we don’t notice the death of democracy.
They overwhelm everyone knowing that 80% of this shit is gonna get outlawed or overturned, but that 20% that gets through is gonna be huge for them.
"what do you mean we can't use fake misleading videos to fuck democracy?"
"The rules were you guys weren't gonna fact check."
This is what the right is doing, while the DNC is censuring their own members for simply encouraging democrats to run against their own apathetic incumbents.
You misspelled pathetic.
Why would they want to "influence elections"?
Sounds shady.
It's a huge part of the business model. Social Media is valuable for its data on people, and for its ability to manipulate and influence people.
X’s lawsuit claims the law’s “requirements are so vague and unintelligible that social media platforms cannot understand what the statute permits and what it prohibits.”
The issue with this argument is that social media platforms aren't required to enforce it? https://www.sos.mn.gov/media/5626/deep-fake-overview.pdf
does anyone have the actual written law? it is hard to argue using summaries or even opinion pieces of musky boy.
IAs far as I read this correctly, the law prohibits creating such media but does not hold the websites accountable for publishing the media.
It does indeed sound vague as to what the social media site should do.
Cool. Let's go with criminal impersonation, defamation, and slander/libel instead them!
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