Congress Fails To Rein In A.I. Misinformation

Congress promised that they would enact strong legislation regulating the use of artificial intelligence ahead of the election, but so far those promises have been empty. And with only a few weeks before the election, Congress has no chance of getting anything done. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Congress promised that they would enact strong legislation regulating the use of artificial intelligence ahead of the election. But so far, those promises have been empty, totally empty. And with only a few weeks to the election, Congress has no choice. They can't get anything done. This, we are living in a world of deep fake, that's what the story's about, right?

Yeah.

Give me some examples. We were talking before, some of these examples are so absurd.

Yeah. You had the AI image that Donald Trump had shared that said, hey, Taylor Swift endorsed me. There's all these Swifties for Trump. There's been these very weird videos that people have made that show Kamala and Donald as a couple with a child together. They look very happy in the video, but obviously it's not real. And of course, the biggest one, and somebody did get prosecuted for this, was when they used AI to recreate President Biden's voice and sent that out to a bunch of voters, giving them misinformation about primaries and everything. So that one was really the big one. All the other ones are kind of funny and weird.

But that one was caught.

Right.

That one was caught early enough to fix it. What we're gonna see, my prediction is this is the new October surprise. AI deepfake is the new October surprise. And the election's gonna be over, and they're not gonna be able to do a thing about it because it's done. All the damage is done.

Well, and you had Democrats, Amy Klobuchar said, I got three pieces of legislation to do this. You had, Todd Young, Republican from Indiana who said, I've got legislation to do this.

Pay attention to it.

Yeah. Chuck Schumer said, well, we got a lot to do, guys. I don't know that we can really get to your much needed legislation. So you had both parties working on this issue because they do understand that this is a problem and it's a big deal. But I think Schumer is just so far behind because of his age.

He's a dinosaur. He doesn't even understand AI.

Yeah. He's like, I don't know what those initials mean, but he's the gatekeeper right now for the Senate, because he is the majority leader.

I swear, if you were to ask him five questions about AI, he could maybe answer one, maybe, depends what it is.

Look, AI has some great uses. It's also a very dangerous tool for artists because it could absolutely destroy the income and the livelihoods of artists, people who, paintings or drawings or whatever. This is hurting them. But in other ways, AI can be a wonderful tool. It can be a useful research project.

Let me tell you how dangerous it is for the, I guess the acting economy or the performer economy. There's already stories. They take 200 people, put 'em in a room and they say, what is it you like about Tom Cruise? Let's talk about specifics. What do you like about his face? Well, I like his jawline. I like his eyes. Well, what do you like about his voice? I like the way his level of excitement rises and falls. What do you like about his mannerisms? Well, I like the way he turns and uses his hands. And then they take Tom Cruise and they create their own version. Not a Tom Cruise. It won't be Tom Cruise. It's gonna be an actor. And then on top of that, they create a storyline. Right? You can take AI, all it does is scrapes 2000 years worth of information. And then it says, you can write an entire screenplay. I'll tell you who's gonna get hit on this worse than anybody, even maybe so than the music industry, is going to be the acting industry. It is gonna close down Hollywood. These people that are moving into acting right now, good luck because this is a new replacement. And they've already got it fairly sophisticated. If you go online and you take a look at, just do a search on let me see a total AI production, its totally made up. The people are made up.