One manipulated video appeared to originate from a pro-Trump X account that has over 1 million followers.
Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her engaging in election denialism — and have been viewed millions of times::Taylor Swift is being targeted again by deepfakes, with supporters of Donald Trump posting manipulated media falsely showing her supporting Trump.
For what it’s worth, I doubt these videos were “viewed” millions of times. X tracks a 1-second automatic playback as a view, such as when someone slowly scrolls past on their feed. Every other service typically counts that as an impression.
We need to make deepfakes of Trump talking about election fraud being a scam and how the american populous, especially urban and rural republicans, are fucken dumb. Just fill this bitch with trump deep fakes.
Can someone explain to me why we cannot wrap these deep fakes into existing identity theft law? Or at least impersonating a public official /government employee when it comes to politicians.
Because it has nothing to do with identity theft? The actors are not attempting to pass by another person for fraudulent purposes. Supporting Trump is not exactly illegal, I guess. I’m sure there are laws that align better with this scenario.
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For what it’s worth, I doubt these videos were “viewed” millions of times. X tracks a 1-second automatic playback as a view, such as when someone slowly scrolls past on their feed. Every other service typically counts that as an impression.
It’s all just bots looking at bots.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
We need to make deepfakes of Trump talking about election fraud being a scam and how the american populous, especially urban and rural republicans, are fucken dumb. Just fill this bitch with trump deep fakes.
Can someone explain to me why we cannot wrap these deep fakes into existing identity theft law? Or at least impersonating a public official /government employee when it comes to politicians.
Ask ChatGPT to be a lawyer and tell us if it holds water
Because it has nothing to do with identity theft? The actors are not attempting to pass by another person for fraudulent purposes. Supporting Trump is not exactly illegal, I guess. I’m sure there are laws that align better with this scenario.
If she would only apply as much legal pressure on X as she does on that one student blogger tracking her CO2 footprint.
I’m amazed her team of lawyers haven’t filed a lawsuit yet. Just collecting evidence for now, I suppose. But it’s starting to pile up quickly.
Thanks Elon