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Neil I. Patel

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Just a few days ago, OpenAI announced Sora, its text-to-video generator, which frankly makes terrifying videos. All those videos look terrifying. But you can see how... A enterprising scammer could immediately use that to make something that looks like compelling video, something that didn't happen. All of these companies talk about AI alignment, making sure AI doesn't go off the rails.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Just a few days ago, OpenAI announced Sora, its text-to-video generator, which frankly makes terrifying videos. All those videos look terrifying. But you can see how... A enterprising scammer could immediately use that to make something that looks like compelling video, something that didn't happen. All of these companies talk about AI alignment, making sure AI doesn't go off the rails.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Just a few days ago, OpenAI announced Sora, its text-to-video generator, which frankly makes terrifying videos. All those videos look terrifying. But you can see how... A enterprising scammer could immediately use that to make something that looks like compelling video, something that didn't happen. All of these companies talk about AI alignment, making sure AI doesn't go off the rails.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Where's the AI industry broadly on we shouldn't do political deepfakes? Do they have a unified point of view or are they all in different spots? How's that working out?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Where's the AI industry broadly on we shouldn't do political deepfakes? Do they have a unified point of view or are they all in different spots? How's that working out?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Where's the AI industry broadly on we shouldn't do political deepfakes? Do they have a unified point of view or are they all in different spots? How's that working out?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

One challenge here in America is the existence of the First Amendment. The Biden administration recently did an executive order saying, don't do bad stuff. And these companies all agreed, OK, we won't do bad stuff. But the United States government is pretty restricted in saying you can't make deep fakes of other people because the First Amendment exists and it can't control that speech directly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

One challenge here in America is the existence of the First Amendment. The Biden administration recently did an executive order saying, don't do bad stuff. And these companies all agreed, OK, we won't do bad stuff. But the United States government is pretty restricted in saying you can't make deep fakes of other people because the First Amendment exists and it can't control that speech directly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

One challenge here in America is the existence of the First Amendment. The Biden administration recently did an executive order saying, don't do bad stuff. And these companies all agreed, OK, we won't do bad stuff. But the United States government is pretty restricted in saying you can't make deep fakes of other people because the First Amendment exists and it can't control that speech directly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Are the companies rising to that challenge and saying we will self-regulate because the government can't directly regulate us?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Are the companies rising to that challenge and saying we will self-regulate because the government can't directly regulate us?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Are the companies rising to that challenge and saying we will self-regulate because the government can't directly regulate us?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

So you've got a handful of companies with varying sets of restrictions, a broad general industry consensus. We shouldn't do deep fakes. And then you have reality, which is that there are deep fakes of celebrities all the time. There are deep fakes of teenage girls in high schools that are getting circulated on private message boards. It is happening. What can be done to stop it?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

So you've got a handful of companies with varying sets of restrictions, a broad general industry consensus. We shouldn't do deep fakes. And then you have reality, which is that there are deep fakes of celebrities all the time. There are deep fakes of teenage girls in high schools that are getting circulated on private message boards. It is happening. What can be done to stop it?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

So you've got a handful of companies with varying sets of restrictions, a broad general industry consensus. We shouldn't do deep fakes. And then you have reality, which is that there are deep fakes of celebrities all the time. There are deep fakes of teenage girls in high schools that are getting circulated on private message boards. It is happening. What can be done to stop it?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Let's start with the second one, which I think has the more obvious answer. Saying no deepfakes are allowed whatsoever seems like it comes with a host of unintended consequences about speech and also seems like impossible to actually accomplish. because of the existence of open source tools. Like I think, how would you actually enforce a total ban on deepfakes?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Let's start with the second one, which I think has the more obvious answer. Saying no deepfakes are allowed whatsoever seems like it comes with a host of unintended consequences about speech and also seems like impossible to actually accomplish. because of the existence of open source tools. Like I think, how would you actually enforce a total ban on deepfakes?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

Let's start with the second one, which I think has the more obvious answer. Saying no deepfakes are allowed whatsoever seems like it comes with a host of unintended consequences about speech and also seems like impossible to actually accomplish. because of the existence of open source tools. Like I think, how would you actually enforce a total ban on deepfakes?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

And the answer is that Intel and Apple and Qualcomm and Nvidia and AMD and every other chip maker have to prevent it somehow at the hardware level, which seems impossible. The only example I can think of where we have allowed that to happen is that Adobe Photoshop won't allow you to scan and print a dollar bill

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI election deepfakes have arrived

And the answer is that Intel and Apple and Qualcomm and Nvidia and AMD and every other chip maker have to prevent it somehow at the hardware level, which seems impossible. The only example I can think of where we have allowed that to happen is that Adobe Photoshop won't allow you to scan and print a dollar bill