On 6/16/23 2:31 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
Here in the U.S., Jennifer DeStefano, an Arizona mother, testified at
a Senate hearing this week about her harrowing experience with a
deepfake scam that tricked her into thinking her daughter had been
kidnapped. DeStefano says the fake kidnappers demanded a $50,000
ransom before she got in touch with her daughter, who was in fact safe
and sound.
*Jennifer DeStefano*: “It was my daughter’s voice. It was her cries.
It was her sobs. It was the way she spoke. I will never be able to
shake that voice and the desperate cries for help out of my mind. It’s
every parent’s worst nightmare to hear your child pleading with fear
and pain, knowing that they’re being harmed and that you’re helpless.
The longer this form of terror remains unpunishable, the farther and
more egregious it will become. There is no limit to the depth of evil
AI can enable.”
Is it already too late to design any kind of regulations?
I think it will require some deep re-factoring of many things ranging
from government regulations and enforcement to social norms and
expectations. I fear this will require some kind of collapse or
revolution and renewal from the ashes.
This is not a reason not to consider deeply what these
rules/regulations/etc might be... if anyone here knows of serious
efforts one or two orders-of-magnitude/levels-of-indirection away from
"the usual" I'd be interested... this qualifies as "wycked-hard"
problem. I think there has been precedent for this level of refactoring
but I think there were things like World Wars that accompanied that
magnitude (and quality) of change.
--
Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org <http://emergentdiplomacy.org>
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
mobile: (303) 859-5609
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