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Extortion is illegal, no?<br>
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<p>Apparently there are both federal and (all 50) state laws against
(im)personation (to achieve gain or cause harm). As far as I
know this doesn't keep Halloween stores from selling Richard Nixon
and Donald Trump masks, but *might* have something to say if they
were realistic enough to pass for *real* in casual contexts. <br>
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<p>Extortion as in this case would be on the more extreme end of
"intending harm" and "achieving gain"? Does the (im)personation
qualify as "aggravated"?<br>
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<p>An early application of DeepFake photo/video was to generate
mashup pornography and much of that is pursued under "defamation"
rules... the same was what applied to hand-work in a film print
lab and air-brush artistry. It has added an extra degree of
freedom for generating "revenge porn" as one might guess. <br>
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<p>During Gulf War zero, LANL was developing simulation models of
human vocal tracts so as to allow for on-demand deepfake audio
with Saddam Hussein as the reference example (and likely prime
target). Back then digital radio/encryption were not ubiquitous.
This work was declassified a decade later... or maybe I just
thought it was/should-be? <br>
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<p>Presumably a studied voice-actor could have faked DeStefano's
daughter's voice to a suitable degree for the purpose, but the
lowering of thresholds seems to be what might need attention?
There are lots of ways to cause dangerous explosions... the fact
that a stick of dynamite with a fuse on one end and a match make
it "trivial" differentiates the need for regulations on that from
say "pressure cookers" ? I'm glad I can buy a pressure cooker
without a background check and (mostly) glad that to acquire
dynamite (or most other highly convenient/concentrated explosives)
requires some scrutiny by my community (via the ATF, etc?). <br>
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<p>Farmers who use both fuel oil and Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer for
their work (aka ANFO when mixed and ignited properly) are often
resentful of this oversight. I don't know that Tim McVeigh had
an easier time renting a big box truck to deliver a load of same
than the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/how-rental-rental-trucks-have-became-a-terrorist-weapon/636149105/">guy
in Boston a few years ago</a>? I *do* think airliners filled
with jet fuel are more respected than they were before 9/11 but
then so are box-cutters...<br>
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<p>I think most laws about "aggravated" assault/homicide/rape/???
specify "deadly weapon" of which we have a conventional range of
"usual suspects" (gun, knife, poison, bludgeon) and another range
of unsurprising examples (moving vehicle, etc.) and more esoteric
ones ("frozen limp noodle or drinking straw fired at high speed
from a pneumatic tube" or "falling piano", or "exploding pressure
cooker with failed pressure valve").</p>
<p>Maybe the much-feared <scare quote> <u><font
color="#ffaa00"><i>!Nanny State!</i> </font></u></sq>
will institute a new department of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/women-fire-and-dangerous-things-what-categories-reveal-about-the-mind-george-lakoff/6803422?ean=9780226468044">"Women,
Fire and Dangerous Things"</a>?<br>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(25,31,36)">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.</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(25,31,36)">Jennifer
DeStefano</span></b><span
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“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.”</span></p>
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Center for Emergent Diplomacy<br>
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