McConnell opposes bill to ban use of deceptive AI to influence elections

[RandySF]

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Wednesday he will oppose bipartisan legislation coming out of the Senate Rules Committee that would ban the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create deceptive content about federal candidates to influence elections.

McConnell, a longtime opponent of campaign finance restrictions, warned that the bills coming out of the Rules Committee “would tamper” with what he called the “well-developed legal regime” for taking down false ads and “create new definitions that could reach well beyond deepfakes.”

He argued that if his colleagues on the Rules panel viewed a dozen political ads, they “would differ on which ones were intentionally misleading.”

“The core question we’re facing is whether or not politicians should have another tool to take down speech they don’t like,” he said. “But if the amendment before us extends this authority to unpaid political speech, then we’re also talking about an extension of speech regulation that has not happened in the 50 years of our modern campaign finance regime.”



https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4665499-mcconnell-opposes-bill-to-ban-use-of-deceptive-ai-to-influence-elections/

[mjvpi]

1. Fuck his disassembling. This one's easy. Lies and disinformation have no place in democratic elections. Period.

Zero tolerance will insure that information will be scrutinized.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Moscow Mitch would be ok with himself or his wife in an AI porno?

How far would they not want to go?

[Midnight Writer]

3. Mitch plays the old "well-developed legal regime" bullshit again.

Just like he explained to us how our legal system is set up to handle a rogue President who breaks laws on a regular basis.

[MurrayDelph]

4. He's banking on the idea

that the cheating will hurt Democrats more than Republicans: the same reasoning he used to oppose the attacks on Hillary by Russia in 2020.

[duckworth969]

5. Exactly

Keeping those dirty tricks in his pockets to use when it’s convenient for the Repugs.

[0rganism]

6. This could all be fixed with the (anonymous) publishing of one Mitch McConnell fake porn video

Nothing normal about it, of course. It starts with Mitch, Gym Jordan, and a pen full of barnyard animals. Then it gets weird from there. Rarely does one get to see an elderly senator get freaky with a brace of xenomorphs, but this video needs to make an obvious point to someone who believes his interests are well served by ignoring it..