#AI Regulation

[saywhat-politics]

While much of this week’s congressional media attention has focused on the proposed cuts to Medicaid that will remove health care coverage for millions, an effort backed by House Republicans, another consequential provision buried deep in budgetary language has received far less scrutiny, even though it will impact all Americans.

The US House Energy and Commerce Committee, voting along party lines, supported a measure that would preempt all state and local regulation of AI for the next ten years. The provision, buried in Section 43201(c) of the committee’s budget reconciliation proposal, would functionally strip the public of any meaningful recourse in the face of AI-related harm.

This would not simply be a pause in regulation. It’s a decade-long permission slip for corporate impunity. The provision is a message to the states: Sit down and shut up while Big Tech writes its own rules or continues to lobby Congress to have none at all. It is, in short, recklessly irresponsible.

For years, federal lawmakers have dragged their feet on AI oversight while state leaders, Republican and Democrat alike, have stepped up. In the absence of federal action, states have taken the lead in building safeguards where AI is rapidly reshaping our lives, including protections against deepfake election material, deepfake pornography, AI-generated child abuse material, algorithmic discrimination, and autonomous vehicle system liability. States took the lead in passing these laws when Congress failed to respond to the public being injured by autonomous vehicles, AI porn created by teens circulating through schools, and child suicides after interacting with AI chatbots.

[dumb-patrol]

Hello Canadians

If you are someone who thinks AI needs to be regulated, I encourage you to email your Member of Parliament about it. I just sent mine an email today. The more emails they get, and the more MPs that get emails, the more likely it is that our concerns will be addressed. It is our job as citizens to demand the change we want to see. If you don't know what to say, here is what my email said:

Hello [MP]

I am a resident in [Riding] who is writing to you today because I feel passionately that the government needs to address the issue of AI, and soon. What is the government doing to protect people's jobs from AI? Prime Minister Carney's platform says he wants to "incentivize AI adoption" and "calls for AI to slash repetitive tasks and reduce costs in the public service. " But what about the people whose jobs it will take? People need to be able to work, and giving jobs to computers that people could, and have been, doing doesn't help anyone but company's bottom lines. It certainly doesn't help the person who lost their job. Also what about the environmental impact of AI? Interesting how no one cares about the environment anymore when it comes to increasing profits for multi millionaires and billionaires. Additionally, what is being done to combat how AI can be used to create fake news and spread misinformation? Me, and others like me, don't want the government to incentivize AI use and to build water and energy wasting data centers, we want the government to regulate AI in order to protect people's jobs, to protect the arts, to deal with the copyright violations AI is rife with, to protect the environment, and to limit the spread of misinformation.

Thank you for your time,

[Your Name]

feel free to change it up if you want obviously but if you're struggling to come up with what to say here's how you can start.

If you don't know who your MP is you can find out using this website: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en

(I encourage American's to do the same, but idk how their politics work and if you can just like email your representative in America like you can in Canada)

[daisiesonafield-blog]

PSA TO AUTHORS AND READERS: AI generated “books”

Link

[indiesellersguild]

Attention Canadian Sellers! The government is looking to update Canadian copyright law for the age of AI-generated art, and they want your input!

Comments are open until 1/15/24.

[pintadorartist]

Oppose H.R. 1: the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"

In May, House Republicans passed their partisan budget reconciliation bill, H.R. 1 the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” that will increase budget deficits by $2.4 trillion to finance trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy. This bill would enact the largest transfer of wealth from the poor the rich in decades.

Senate Republicans are now rewriting portions of the bill to satisfy strict Senate parliamentarian rules while also maintaining the House’s partisan wish list framework. These harmful provisions include:

Deep cuts to Medicaid, including harsh new work requirements

New Medicare eligibility rules and increased costs for dual Medicaid-Medicare enrollees

Tripling the budget for ICE and Trump’s mass deportation effort

Authorization for the sale of public lands and increased incentives for fossil fuel production

Widespread rollback of clean energy tax incentives and climate protections

Unprecedented funding cuts and expansion of work requirements for SNAP

Limits on a court’s ability to issue temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions

Funding cuts to clinical care services at Planned Parenthood and gender-affirming care for Medicaid and CHIP recipients

Requiring states block all AI regulation for 10 years in order to receive federal broadband funding

A $150 billion increase to an already bloated Pentagon budget

A national private school voucher program that diverts funding from public schools and sets up a new tax shelter for the wealthy

An increased excise tax on college endowments

Widespread changes to student loan access, protections, and repayment options

Harmful changes to federal worker pay, benefits, unions, and protections against unjust treatment

Slashes to funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by nearly 70%

Elimination of a tax on gun silencer sales

Raising the debt limit by $5 trillion purely to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, adding trillions to the national debt.

Senate Republicans are aiming to pass their version of H.R. 1 by the July 4th holiday. Call your Senators and demand they oppose this destructive bill.

fax tool:

[sanyu-thewitch05]

I feel so bad that Megan has to deal with the AI sextape being passed around. Yet again, this whole scandal is being perpetrated by Blackistan and its members( The black blogs and obsessive stans) and at this point I think Megan needs to pull a Tina Turner/Eve move and distance herself from the collective rap industry. In general she’s partially already doing that by leaning into her anime watcher side and including that into her music(because let’s be honest, Blackistan stays away from certain kinds of aesthetics and music on purpose).

Also, on the topic of Blackistan and Megan, Blackistan has had its ugly neck out for her ever since Tory Lanez got put in jail. I still remember when the Black rap blogs were putting out fake headlines that Tory was found innocent, only for them to be wrong. They don’t like it when criminal Black men are held accountable in any way. If we learned anything from Tina Turner’s life and death, Blackistan is going to make Megan’s injury, virtual harassment, and fake sex tape a joke to degrade and humiliate her even when she’s in the grave.

And it’s not lost on me how Taylor got sympathy and the government to start doing something when she was the victim of this happening. But Megan doesn’t even get basic human respect and the ability to cry because she’s being dehumanized online via a deepfake.

[novelcain]

Small post on my take on AI

Unfortunately, because of how AI has been taken advantage of by large corporations to cut costs, there's a very unhealthy discontent amongst creators and workers with AI.

The fact is that AI will continue to be a part of our lives for the rest of human history, most likely. And that's not a bad thing as it's already in more things than you can imagine, and it's changed how we do things for the better to be completely honest.

With the advancement of AI comes the ability to make people's lives easier. It should be used to help us with/do the boring and mundane tasks so that we can focus on enjoying our time on this earth. However, there definitely needs to be new laws put into place to regulate what AI can and can not be used for.

For example. The shitshow that was Marvel blatantly and openly admitting to using AI art in their trailer for Secret Invasion. I don't care that it's symbolic. It took jobs away from artists just so they could cut corners and not have to pay for it. Just because humans are being replaced in the movie doesn't mean we should do the same irl. Like seriously, learn to separate fiction from reality.

That being said, AI creative works like art and writings should never be used as final products unless they are for personal use only. Rather, they should be used as references and inspiration for creators to expand their horizon or work on new projects. Once again, reference, not final products.

Having said that, yes, AI would have to scoop the internet to continue evolving. The fact of the matter is that AI can't get better without references. However, consent is still important. If a creator doesn't want their stuff put into AI, that's their choice and right. In the same way you can choose not to participate in a study.

In the end, companies need to acknowledge the importance of artists, writers, and workers and their efforts (as well as accept human value in general). Nothing a machine produces will be able to compare to what the hands of a living being can make as they are, in the end, imitations of the original human works.

So again, AI isn't the devil, but it should be monitored and put to use for humans, not against humans.

Corporations need to learn that advancements in technology shouldn't be used to help their profits but to help humanity as whole (which in the end will benefit them if they can just get their heads out of the asses for one minute 🙄). And hopefully with the development of AI and robotics, humans will no longer have to do/work on anything that they don't wish to just so they can survive.

Life should be about enjoyment and experiences, not living paycheck to paycheck, and AI can help with that, but only if it's used properly and not taken advantage of.

[springtime-creations]

I might be abandoning my Instagram in favor of tumblr because fuck meta stealing my likeness for their generative ai. Oh and they're stealing art too.

Shit sucks. I'm just waiting for the lawsuits to start rolling out. At least on here they're polite enough to give me an opt out button.

[tec-alpha]

🚀 AI Won’t Wait for Hollywood—So Why Are You?

By TEC | The Reality Check Hollywood & The world Doesn’t Want but Needs. Read the CBS News article on Hollywood & AI Hollywood, listen up. You, the 420+ actors who signed that letter about AI and digital likeness rights—you’re missing the point. Not because you’re wrong to be concerned. Not because your image, voice, and art don’t deserve protection. But because you’re already too late. AI…

[hhliu]

Please follow me on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/haihaoliu_linguist-emily-m-bender-has-a-word-or-two-activity-7155703130259681280-wRo8

“The handful of very wealthy … tech bros are not in a position to understand the needs of humanity at large,” [Prof. Emily M. Bender] bluntly argued.

“You can have all the good intentions in the world, but you’re not going to get very far until there’s some regulation that protects the rights that the profit motive runs roughshod over,” Bender dropped another truth bomb.

This very much echoes what I posted about a while back on Yanis Varoufakis’s newly coined technofeudalism: https://lnkd.in/gGekMQ_M

As I wrote then: My personal take is we cannot rely on the benevolence and philanthropy of a select few to guide and shape the future of humanity. Even if they genuinely start from a place of good and nobel intentions, the potential for corruption, having that sort of power, is simply too great.

[brainbleedo]

AI needs to be stopped.

This is going to be very different to my usual posts, i understand if you're not interested and I can't stop you from not reading this but I cannot understand how important it is that we regulate AI and it's useage. Even if you don't read my post, please do your research, please.

AI vs Artists

AI is being developed from the work of artists, artists who put effort and passion into their work are having it stolen and used to develop an algorithm that will destroy their livelyhood. Your art is not safe.

I cannot emphasize this enough, like it or not, your art is not safe. I'm not going to tell you to stop posting your art, but beg you, learn how these things work. Learn the current laws around ai, push for further restrictions and for companys to be held accountable, talk with other artists, fight back against ai.

We have hit a point where it's make or break, frankly I don't believe the art industry, especially the digital art industry, will ever be the same. You cannot outright ban the use of AI generated images, even regulations are temporary because what happens when ai really figures it out? When there's no strange blip or extra finger to give it away? When the two are practically indistinguishable?

There's alot more I can say about AI and how devastating ai generated media is going to be, and make no mistake it will be devastating, ai has and will continue to ruin the lives of many people.

This is not a joke, this isn't something that will sort itself out or burn itself out, you need to act now and do whatever you can if not for others then for yourself because you are not immune to AI and it's consequences and by the time you realise that it may be too late.

[sentivium]

AI CEOs Admit 25% Extinction Risk… WITHOUT Our Consent!

AI leaders are acknowledging the potential for human extinction due to advanced AI, but are they making these decisions without public input? We discuss the ethical implications and the need for greater transparency and control over AI development.

[donuttrymedebil]

AIbros when text/image generators are built on stolen/scraped data without consent:

AIbros when GitHub shows how to get ChatGPT to reveal samples of training data it was unethically built on:

[millionmovieproject]

The new episode of The Million Movie Project Presents is here!!

I go a little personal here talking about the WGA and SAG AFTRA strikes in the need for AI regulation, in how I ultimately lost my primary source of income to it. It's not just something effecting actors, but is infecting every industry, and no ones jobs are safe. If we don't band together and support the strikes, unionize workplaces, and push for universal basic income (UBI) and universal healthcare not tied to employment, we're facing a living and employment crisis like the world has never seen (even worse than now).

Then, I even found some time to get around to discussing some film history, on how yesterday's musical is today's action movie.

[aitalksblog]

Top Weekly AI News – June 20, 2025

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