Neil I. Patel

Let's start with non-consensual deepfake pornography, which I think everybody agrees is a bad thing that we should find ways to regulate away. A solution to revenge porn broadly on the internet is copyright law, right? You have made these files with your phone or your computer. someone else distributes them, you say, no, those are mine. Copyright law will let me take this down.

When you have deep fakes, there is no original. It's not a copy of something that you've made or that you own. You have to come up with some other way to do it, right? You have to come up with some other mechanism, whether that's just a law that says this is not right, or it's some other idea like the right to your likeness. Where have most of the existing laws landed there?

When you have deep fakes, there is no original. It's not a copy of something that you've made or that you own. You have to come up with some other way to do it, right? You have to come up with some other mechanism, whether that's just a law that says this is not right, or it's some other idea like the right to your likeness. Where have most of the existing laws landed there?

When you have deep fakes, there is no original. It's not a copy of something that you've made or that you own. You have to come up with some other way to do it, right? You have to come up with some other mechanism, whether that's just a law that says this is not right, or it's some other idea like the right to your likeness. Where have most of the existing laws landed there?

There are a bunch of state laws around non-consensual AI-generated pornography. What states are those, and is there any federal law on the horizon?

There are a bunch of state laws around non-consensual AI-generated pornography. What states are those, and is there any federal law on the horizon?

There are a bunch of state laws around non-consensual AI-generated pornography. What states are those, and is there any federal law on the horizon?

The idea that someone should be in absolute control of a photograph of themselves has only gained prominence over time. Emily Ratajkowski wrote that great essay for The Cut several years ago, where she said, a street photographer took a photo of me, and I put it on my Instagram, and I'm suing him to say that I can take his photo because it's a photo of me.

The idea that someone should be in absolute control of a photograph of themselves has only gained prominence over time. Emily Ratajkowski wrote that great essay for The Cut several years ago, where she said, a street photographer took a photo of me, and I put it on my Instagram, and I'm suing him to say that I can take his photo because it's a photo of me.

The idea that someone should be in absolute control of a photograph of themselves has only gained prominence over time. Emily Ratajkowski wrote that great essay for The Cut several years ago, where she said, a street photographer took a photo of me, and I put it on my Instagram, and I'm suing him to say that I can take his photo because it's a photo of me.

And that is a very complicated argument in that case. But the idea that you should be in total control of any photo of you, I think a lot of people just instinctively believe that. And I think likeness law is what makes that have legal force. But you're saying, oh, there's some stuff here you wouldn't want to pull under that umbrella.

And that is a very complicated argument in that case. But the idea that you should be in total control of any photo of you, I think a lot of people just instinctively believe that. And I think likeness law is what makes that have legal force. But you're saying, oh, there's some stuff here you wouldn't want to pull under that umbrella.

And that is a very complicated argument in that case. But the idea that you should be in total control of any photo of you, I think a lot of people just instinctively believe that. And I think likeness law is what makes that have legal force. But you're saying, oh, there's some stuff here you wouldn't want to pull under that umbrella.

We have to take another quick break. We'll be right back.

We have to take another quick break. We'll be right back.

We have to take another quick break. We'll be right back.

We're back talking with Verge Policy Editor Addy Robertson about why it's really hard to limit either the creation or sharing of deepfakes. So that's the philosophical policy debate. You want to restrict this because in many cases it can be used to do very bad things.

We're back talking with Verge Policy Editor Addy Robertson about why it's really hard to limit either the creation or sharing of deepfakes. So that's the philosophical policy debate. You want to restrict this because in many cases it can be used to do very bad things.

We're back talking with Verge Policy Editor Addy Robertson about why it's really hard to limit either the creation or sharing of deepfakes. So that's the philosophical policy debate. You want to restrict this because in many cases it can be used to do very bad things.

There's some things that we absolutely want to forbid, but if we let that get too wide, we're going to start running into people's everyday speech. We're going to start running into absolutely constitutionally protected speech, like documentaries, like news reporting. That's pretty blurry. And I think the audience here, you should sit with that because that is pretty blurry.