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[-] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

It will be interesting to see that tested in court. I don't think anyone would complain about for example a pencil sketch of a naked celebrity, that would be considered free speech and fair use even if it is a sketch of a scene from a movie.

So where does the line go? If the pencil sketch is legal, what if you do a digital sketch with Adobe illustrator and a graphics tablet? What if you use the Adobe AI function to help clean up the image? What if you take screen grabs of a publicity shot of the actor's face and a nude image of someone else, and use them together to trace the image you end up painting? What if you then use AI to help you select colors and help shading? What if you do each of those processes individually but you have AI do each of them? That is not very functionally different from giving an AI a publicity shot and telling it to generate a nude image.

As I see it, The only difference between the AI deepfake and the fake produced by a skilled artist is the amount of time and effort required. And while that definitely makes it easy to turn out an awful lot of fakes, it's bad policy to ban one and not the other simply based on the process by which the image was created.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's messy legislation all around. When does it become porn vs art vs just erotic or satirical? How do you prove it was a deep fake and not a lookalike? If I use a porn actress to make a deep fake is that also illegal or is it about how the original source content was intended to be used/consumed?

I'm not saying that we should just ignore these issues, but I don't think any of this will be handled well by any government.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's easy. The movie studios know what post-production went into the scenes and have the documents to prove it. They can easily prove that such clips fall under deepfake laws.

Y'all need to be more cynical. These lobby groups do not make arguments because they believe in them, but because it gets them what they want.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I was responding to an above comment. The guy who was arrested in op's article was posting clips from movies (so not deep fakes).

That being said, for deepfakes, you'd need the original video to prove it was deepfaked. Additionally, you'd then probably need to prove they used a real person to make the deep fake. Nowadays it's easy to make "fake" people using AI. Not sure where the law sits on creating deepfakes of fake people who resemble other people.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't make the point clear. The original scenes themselves, as released by the studio, may qualify as "deepfakes". A little bit of digital post-processing can be enough to qualify them under the proposed bills. Then sharing them becomes criminal, fair use be damned.

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