🆘 We have begun crowd-funding to get us to the next hearing which will be placed on the calendar sometime prior to January 23rd. 🆘 We have lots of work to do and we are up against billion dollar companies. 🆘 We will need at least 250 people at that next hearing. 🆘 Please consider a donation.

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Paul Brest Hall at Stanford was jammed with people this week as hundreds of actors, writers, musicians and digital artists showed up to tell lawmakers they are done being kept in the dark about how artificial intelligence is trained on their work. #CAAB412 #AB412 #March2Testify

The incredible creative crew who stood up for all of us at Stanford at this mornings hearing! We thank you!! @navavoices.org @sagaftra.org @digelsrud.bsky.social #CAAB412 #March2Testify

Tomorrow creators take a stand for their work. Thank you @crooksandliars.bsky.social for sharing our story. And Thank you @lydiacornell.bsky.social! #March2Testify #CAAB412 #AB412

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word! RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇

“Critics of OpenAI’s multibillion dollar corporate restructuring want to bring the matter to California voters, launching two different ballot initiatives as well as a campaign website that calls on billionaires like Elon Musk to pitch in on halting the business expansion.”

🆘 !! THEY’RE MOBILIZING !! 🆘 🆘 !!THIS IS NOT A DRILL !! 🆘 AI COMPANIES ARE COMING TO STANFORD Sign-up at March2Testify.org FIGHTING TO KEEP THEIR THEFT LEGAL DEC 8TH @ 10AM WE NEED YOU THERE DECEMBER 8TH STANFORD UNIVERSITY OUR FUTURE IS DECIDED IN 7 DAYS. #CAAB412 #march2testify #copyright

🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 Sign up at March2Testify.org to stand up in person for Your Rights as an artist, creator on December 8th at Stanford U 9am We have one chance to get this right. 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘

Heck, yeah. Just signed up…see you at Stanford on 12/8!

Heck, yeah. I signed up! See you at Stanford on 12/8.

Anyone failing to cut the poor off from food stamps has failed twice.

Before the French revolution, wasn’t Nvidia worth $5 trillion while a judge ruled for emergency funding on food stamps?

Go @davidjolliffe.bsky.social ! A true warrior and a dedicated union leader. And a mensch. Vote for him.

“The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.” #AIEthics

“Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called out artificial intelligence companies like Meta for their alleged role in taking more than 200 terabytes of published works from authors without paying them a dime to make AI smarter.”

‘An ambitious Cal state senator is appealing directly to major tech firms, incl. Google, Meta and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, hoping to get them on board with his second attempt at regulating AI after his failed push last year rocked Silicon Valley with reverberations all the way to Washington.’

New article: Why the EFF is wrong about digital identity protection. A checksum isn't censorship—it's binary consent verification. Without standards, anyone can be deepfaked. With standards? A $425B authentication market. bit.ly/44cgXgH #DigitalIdentity #AI #ContentAuthenticity #NOFAKES #Deepfakes

“New company Incantor AI has launched with what the tech company calls the “first AI model that enables creator attribution and IP rights tracking across all gen AI-derived content created on its platform.” #AIEthics

“Hollywood's AI concerns so far have mostly been from actors and writers trying to defend their name, image and likeness from being leveraged by movie studios without a fair value trade. Now, those studios are trying to protect themselves against AI tech giants.” #AIEthics

Excited to join @DigitalHollywood's AI Entertainment Summit panel on state AI regulation! Discussing how different state approaches to deepfake protections impact performers and creators. July 21-23, 2PM PST / 5PM EST, virtual event. #DigitalHollywood #AISummit #PublicPolicy #TechPolicy #AILaw

Someone I know was just shot in the leg at a #PeacefulProtest in LA. Don’t believe the propaganda. There are no riots here. They’re in a trauma unit but OK.

“Natasha Lyonne, runs the Los Angeles production company Animal Pictures with fellow actor and comedian Maya Rudolph. Lyonne has been a screen actor since childhood. “ #AIEthics

May the Force escort you to your seat. #AndorSeason2 #TVAcademy

Scammers are now impersonating governors & senators. This isn't theoretical. Deepfakes are hitting the highest levels of government RIGHT NOW. Your voice needs the same legal protections as your signature. ==> www.protectdigitalidentity.org abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi...

We’ve gotten to where I see this and think, “That’s all today? Phew.”

Honoring and Remembering our US Military Personnel who died in service to our country. Prayers, love, and strength to all who have lost a loved one, and to those who served. #MemorialDay 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Grocery prices have gone up 26% over the last three years, and folks are are whining about the potential price of an iPhone with tariffs. Don’t you buy an iPhone every few years? I ain't a fan of his, but this country's priorities are $&@%ed up.

Digital identity protection is hitting a 2025 turning point. • NO FAKES Act now backed by Google, OpenAI, SAG-AFTRA • LinkedIn rolls out C2PA authentication • 68% of deepfakes nearly indistinguishable Here's why. #DigitalIdentity #ContentAuthentication #AIEthics www.linkedin.com/pulse/digita...

“AI-driven fraud is like on the rise. Deepfakes, once stuck to damaging videos affecting celebrities and average citizens alike, are now like advanced enough to happen in real time.” #AIEthics

I just called my House Member, and BOTH of my US Senators ... Call them to tell them UNEQUIVOCALLY NO on the State AI Regulation Ban. No joke, we are going to have to repeatedly call these guys. Do it every morning while you’re having your breakfast. Easy peasy! 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...

Taylor Swift to high school girls around the country have been victims of non-consensual, explicit deepfakes images, where a person’s face is superimposed on a nude body using AI. Now, after months of outcry, there is finally a federal law criminalizing the sharing of those images. #AIEthics 👏

FACT: many Americans don’t have the basic education to look up a definition of “to 86”? Start with the dictionary: Merriam-Webster: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e...

Quick, get rid of diversity in the CIA because it's easy to blend in globally if you're a white male. #SarcasmDoesntPrint

(1 of 2) Dubbing is such an undervalued job now that they make the actors lock their phones in a cubby-safe The new software can change the language, change the lip movement...and keep the original voice and emotional content.

Why are we comparing computer <--> human intelligence? 🧑🏼‍🦱 We are bags of adrenaline and cortisol and oxytocin with five senses. 🤖 AI is a new species that recognizes patterns in data oceans where we can’t swim. Assuming AI will think like us is not only inaccurate—it’s myopic and dangerous.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity and vowing to continue with some of the core priorities of Pope Francis. #AIEthics

“We need strong regulations and protections in place to safeguard artists when people try to steal their work and pass it off as their own using artificial intelligence,”“This bill was made to clarify existing law using language approved by both #SAGAFTRA and the #MPA #AIEthics

He may have been too Christlike for some people, but from an outsider’s perspective, he was my fave so far. RIP #PopeFrancis. #CatholicChurch #Requiem

Just returned from the Internet Identity Workshop in San Jose where experts tackled protecting digital IDs in the AI era. It seems folks were not yet incorporating likeness, voice, and movement. It was a pleasure to speak on this in front of a great group. www.protectdigitalidentity.org

🔍 NSF RESEARCH PROJECT HELP NEEDED! Have an NSF research grant to fight insurance fraud. Know ANYONE in auto insurance - claims adjusters or SIU investigators? Need just 15 mins of their time for research (not selling). MIT partnership developing tech to verify photos in claims.

Hold on a second. Your entrance strategy is to crash the markets and raise consumer prices? ::::starting the popcorn::::

“A federal judge today denied OpenAI’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit by The New York Times, a major development in a closely watched case that will test the limits of what AI firms can use, and how, to train their large language models.” #AIEthics

Stage to startup: Deepfakes created the problem. We're building the antidote. #PixelProof #DigitalIdentity #OnChainAuthenticity #EthicalAI #Ethereum #Layer2 @protectdid.bsky.social

Watch NAVA Live in Sacramento Tuesday March 18th, 9am PT. CA Assembly Privacy & Consumer Protection Committee Chair, Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan will speak about her bill AB-412 (the AI Copyright Transparency Act) Link to Press Conference : www.youtube.com/live/wK95aZh...

Your image is YOURS. No one has the right to fuck with it. Follow @protectdid.bsky.social and sign the open letter to Congress here: ProtectDigitalIdentity.org #NOFAKESAct #COPIEDAct

We are all on this beautiful Big Blue Green Planet together. We know that survival means caring for one another. In the world of improv, the words most important are, "Yes, and..." Those words keep us strong, positive, and adding to the conversation. #YesAnd #StarterPack

Please join me and sign the open letter to congress at ProtectDigitalIdentity.org #NOFAKESAct #COPIEDAct #AIEthics #ArtificialIntelligence #AI @protectdid.bsky.social

This is so important. 💥 ▶️ Please sign! ▶️ We must keep our kids and ourselves safe. #AIEthics #NoFAKESAct #CopiedAct

Your voice. Your likeness. Your movements. Your digital identity belongs to you. A framework for protecting Americans in the AI age: #MyDigitalIdentityIsMine #ProtectDigitalIdentity open.substack.com/pub/erikpass...