Call your Reps!! This would be horrific!

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“Intense irritation.” Thompson told Colbert about AI. “Because I write long hand on a pad, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand.” 12/8 Testify @ Stanford U for copyright protection. march2testify.org Sign-Up. Donate. #RespectCopyright #CAAB412 #March2Testify

The First Mass Mobilization for Intellectual Property Rights | Stanford University on December 8, 2025 YES to California bill AB 412 March2Testify.org Historic bipartisan action is needed. #RespectCopyright #March2Testify #Writers. #Artists. #Scientists. #Musicians. #Photographers. #Coders.

The largest IP theft in history and we are fighting back! Stanford University, December, 8th California AB 412 matters. Go to March2Testify.org Sign-Up. Donate. Share! #RespectCopyright #CAAB412 #March2Testify

Do this now! Sign our OPEN Letter to Congress. Go to protectdigitalidentity.org and sign. Tell Congress you want your identity protected. Let them knw that Deepfakes of artists, politicians, your child, your grandma, are not okay. #NOFAKESAct #COPIEDAct #AIEthics

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed SB 53, a first-in-the-nation bill that sets new transparency requirements on large AI companies.

“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.’

U.S. senators voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove a controversial 10-year ban on states’ abilities to regulate AI from the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” reports Axios.

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

Great to see performers' digital identity protection being discussed at this level. The intersection of state regulation and creator rights needs strong voices who understand the technical realities. #CaliforniaAI #TennesseeElvisAct #StateRegulation #AILegislation

“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

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...

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...

“Tech and music industry leaders testified about the dangers of deepfakes made with AI on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would protect people's voices and likenesses from being replicated without consent, while allowing use of the tech responsibly.” #AIEthics

“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

Sir Elton John described the government as "absolute losers" and said he feels "incredibly betrayed" over plans to exempt technology firms from copyright laws. #AIEthics

Listening to the story just now and especially considering our own debates in this country on AI I think a lot of guidance can be taken from the actions #sagaftra on deep fakes and other issues at stake in the House of Lords right now .. #bbcwomanshour #lawsky #wato

David Do from Toronto, drives a Tesla and is paid $121,000 a year as a hospital pharmacist. He leads a double life as a key person behind the world's most notorious website for non-consensual, AI-generated porn of real people: MrDeepFakes.com. He has never been fully identified until now. #AIEthics

➡️ Artificial intelligence was a major factor in the actors strike of 2023 and the burgeoning technology will remain a key element in next year’s negotiations. ➡️ #SAGAFTRA chief Duncan Crabtree-Ireland has laid out some of the guilds plans ahead of its contract with the studios expiring in June 2026.

“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

➡️ London Mayor Sadiq Khan says deepfake audio of him supposedly making inflammatory remarks before Armistice Day almost caused "serious disorder". ➡️ Mr Khan says the law is not "fit for purpose" in tackling AI fakes, as the audio creator "got away with it". #AIEthics

“Adobe is releasing a web tool to let creators attach content credentials to all image files, even if they are not created or edited through its own tools. Plus, it’s providing a way for creators to signal to AI companies that they shouldn’t use that particular image for training models.” #AIEthics

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

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

Please join actor James Hong and sign the open letter to congress at ProtectDigitalIdentity.org #JamesHong #NOFAKESAct #COPIEDAct #AIEthics #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #JamesHong

@chrismessina.me OK, I'm trying to understand. Banksy is an artist. His art is his intellectual property. My friend Sally is an artist. So is hers. Bansky is famous, Sally is not. What is the proposed "no IP" plan with their art? @protectdid.bsky.social

One crosswalk button that was hacked to sound like Musk said: “I guess they say money can’t buy happiness… I guess that’s true. God knows I’ve tried. But it can buy a Cybertruck and that’s pretty sick, right?”

“Ireland's privacy regulator launched an investigation on Friday into how social media platform X has used Europeans' personal data to train its artificial intelligence model Grok.” #TechSky #AiEthics

The Recording Academy’s Grammys on the Hill Advocacy Day culminated on Capitol Hill w/Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Reps. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) and Maria Salazar (R-Fl.) announcing the reintroduction of the #NOFAKES” Act. #AIEthics

Everyone needs protections from this growing technology. I urge you to sign this OPEN letter to Congress at protectdigitalidentity.org I signed 🙂 Please join me! Our futures depend on proper legislation. #ProtectDID #NOFAKESAct #COPIEDAct #AlEthics @protectdid.bsky.social

Please join me! Sign the open letter to Congress at protectdigitalidentity.org Our futures depend on proper legislation. #ProtectDID #NOFAKESAct #COPIEDAct #AlEthics  @protectdid.bsky.social

To protect all individuals likeness from unauthorized use.

➡️ Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements ➡️ According to the Copyright Office, there’s simply too much work being done autonomously between the prompt and the output to consider it made by a person

Miyazaki himself has decried AI’s use in art — “I strongly feel this is an insult to life itself,” he said in 2016, non-gently, a point that when juxtaposed with so many people unleashing the tool in homage to his work turned their act hilarious and a little cringe. #AIEthics

Please join actor Spencer Garrett presently co-starring in The Residence on #Netflix @spencergarrettyeah.bsky.social Sign the open letter to Congress at protectdigitalidentity.org Our futures depend on proper legislation. #ProtectDID #NOFAKESAct #COPIEDAct #AlEthics #TheResidence

‘Tools have been designed to determine whether the information an AI is providing to users is factually accurate, the MASK benchmark was designed to determine whether an AI believes what it’s telling you — and how it may be coerced to give you information that it knows to be incorrect.’

EXCLUSIVE: ➡️ YouTube has stopped two major fake movie trailer channels from being able to monetize their AI-fueled videos. ➡️ Turning off ad revenue on Screen Culture and KH Studio trailers after a Deadline investigation chronicled the scale and sophistication of their output.

NAVA President Tim Friedlander quoted in the LA Times. #navavoices

“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

Even if you aren't an author, or an artist of any sort, please consider signing this open letter to Congress. Let them know that you care about this, and that setting limits on AI use and training must be made mandatory. It's crucial for so many reasons! Protectdigitalidentity.org

Janis Ian is one of the most beloved song writers/ performers of generations. Her work has be abused by AI data mining w/o permission. This is not okay. Thank you for speaking up and joining us @janisian.bsky.social! Please consider signing the open letter to Congress: ProtectDigitalIdentity.org

Signed. Public figures should be able to protect their image from AI harvesting and training. Caveat, no algorithm will ever get anywhere near Heather's beauty & soul

Please join actress/activist Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social and sign the open letter to congress at protectdigitalidentity.org Our futures depend on proper legislation. #ProtectDID #NOFAKESAct #COPIEDAct #AlEthics #Artificiallntelligence #AI

1/2 “The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) led a group of 10 music community leaders, including the Nashville Songwriters’ Association International and the Recording Academy, calling on the Administration’s AI Action Plan to promote American leadership in protecting both IP and AI..”