Clarke introduces bill to combat high-tech altered videos
Lawmakers worry that deepfakes will influence the 2020 election.
Legislators are worried that altered videos — many created using artificial intelligence and so real in appearance they are called “deepfakes” — will be used in disinformation campaigns before the 2020 election.
U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke, who represents Park Slope and Crown Heights, introduced the DEEPFAKES Accountability Act on Wednesday. This bill would hold video creators accountable when posting altered videos, and would require malicious deepfakes to be labeled with a watermark and a disclaimer identifying them as manipulated content.
A digitally doctored video of Nancy Pelosi got more than 2.5 million hits on Facebook after President Donald Trump shared it on social media, while a fake video of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was uploaded by activists to Instagram, in which phony Zuckerberg said he was in control of billions of people’s lives.