Technology,
Government
Sep. 23, 2024
First Amendment experts grapple with how to challenge laws against 'deepfakes'
Several states, including California, have passed laws to regulate content that uses the images and voices of real people, usually politicians.
2024 might be remembered as the year lawmakers finally tried to regulate so-called deepfakes. It also might be the year cutting edge technology ran into the 237-year-old U.S. Constitution.
"It's always very dangerous to give the government the power to punish people for what's allegedly true or false," David Loy, legal director of the First Amendment Coalition, said in an interview Friday. "This is why we have our First Amendment. The premise is that the pr...
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