Neil I. Patel

So that feels like it will be very controversial if it happens as a speech regulation. But at the heart of that is the First Amendment, right? People have such a strong belief in the First Amendment that saying the government should make a speech regulation, even if something is really bad, is an extraordinarily complicated and high barrier to cross. Do you see that changing in the context of AI?

So that feels like it will be very controversial if it happens as a speech regulation. But at the heart of that is the First Amendment, right? People have such a strong belief in the First Amendment that saying the government should make a speech regulation, even if something is really bad, is an extraordinarily complicated and high barrier to cross. Do you see that changing in the context of AI?

So that feels like it will be very controversial if it happens as a speech regulation. But at the heart of that is the First Amendment, right? People have such a strong belief in the First Amendment that saying the government should make a speech regulation, even if something is really bad, is an extraordinarily complicated and high barrier to cross. Do you see that changing in the context of AI?

We spent a lot of time talking about the visual side of it. We're going to make deep fake images. Those images have real world harms, especially to young people, especially young women in an election cycle, making it seem like Trump or Biden fell down the stairs could be very damaging. There's also the voice side of it, right? Where having Joe Biden do AI generated robocalls is a real problem. Uh,

We spent a lot of time talking about the visual side of it. We're going to make deep fake images. Those images have real world harms, especially to young people, especially young women in an election cycle, making it seem like Trump or Biden fell down the stairs could be very damaging. There's also the voice side of it, right? Where having Joe Biden do AI generated robocalls is a real problem. Uh,

We spent a lot of time talking about the visual side of it. We're going to make deep fake images. Those images have real world harms, especially to young people, especially young women in an election cycle, making it seem like Trump or Biden fell down the stairs could be very damaging. There's also the voice side of it, right? Where having Joe Biden do AI generated robocalls is a real problem. Uh,

or convincing people on TikTok that Trump said something he didn't say is a real problem. Do any of these laws address that aspect of it?

or convincing people on TikTok that Trump said something he didn't say is a real problem. Do any of these laws address that aspect of it?

or convincing people on TikTok that Trump said something he didn't say is a real problem. Do any of these laws address that aspect of it?

What about a fake Joe Biden, Joe Rogan podcast on TikTok?

What about a fake Joe Biden, Joe Rogan podcast on TikTok?

What about a fake Joe Biden, Joe Rogan podcast on TikTok?

All right. So we've arrived at what I would describe as existential crisis. Many, many problems. One set of things that should clearly be illegal, which deepfake nonconsensual pornography seems like it should clearly be legal. Everything else seems kind of up for grabs. How should people be thinking about these challenges as they go into this election year?

All right. So we've arrived at what I would describe as existential crisis. Many, many problems. One set of things that should clearly be illegal, which deepfake nonconsensual pornography seems like it should clearly be legal. Everything else seems kind of up for grabs. How should people be thinking about these challenges as they go into this election year?

All right. So we've arrived at what I would describe as existential crisis. Many, many problems. One set of things that should clearly be illegal, which deepfake nonconsensual pornography seems like it should clearly be legal. Everything else seems kind of up for grabs. How should people be thinking about these challenges as they go into this election year?

Thanks again to Verge Policy Editor Addie Robertson for joining us on Decoder. These issues are so challenging and she always helps me understand them so much more clearly. If you have thoughts about this episode or what you'd like to hear more of, you can email us at decoder at theverge.com. We really do read every email and we talk about them quite a bit.

Thanks again to Verge Policy Editor Addie Robertson for joining us on Decoder. These issues are so challenging and she always helps me understand them so much more clearly. If you have thoughts about this episode or what you'd like to hear more of, you can email us at decoder at theverge.com. We really do read every email and we talk about them quite a bit.

Thanks again to Verge Policy Editor Addie Robertson for joining us on Decoder. These issues are so challenging and she always helps me understand them so much more clearly. If you have thoughts about this episode or what you'd like to hear more of, you can email us at decoder at theverge.com. We really do read every email and we talk about them quite a bit.

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