Elon Musk’s X Sues Minnesota To Stop Law Banning ‘deepfakes’ Generated By Ai

[Kale Carey]

IT’S BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE MINNESOTA ENACTED A LAW TO PREVENT THE USE OF A-I GENERATED DEEPFAKES DURING AN ELECTION–

NOW A SOCIAL MEDIA GIANT IS CHALLENGING THE LAW IN FEDERAL COURT FOR INFRINGING ON ITS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. 

ELON MUSK’S PLATFORM–X–FILED A LAWSUIT WEDNESDAY ASKING A JUDGE TO BLOCK THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTE. 

SINCE TAKING OWNERSHIP OF TWITTER IN 2022, MUSK HAS DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS A FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST. ONCE HE CHANGED THE NAME TO X, HE ALSO GOT RID OF THE COMPANY’S PREVIOUS CONTENT MODERATION POLICIES. 

COURT DOCUMENTS EXPLAIN THEIR ARGUMENT, SAYING THE LAW, “Violates nan First and Fourteenth Amendments of nan United States Constitution, because its requirements are truthful vague and unintelligible that societal media platforms cannot understand what nan statute permits and what it prohibits, which will lead to broad censorship, including of afloat protected, halfway governmental speech.”

IN 2023, MINNESOTA JOINED MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHER STATES PASSING LEGISLATION AIMED TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF DEEPFAKES DEPICTING CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR STATE OFFICE.

THE LAW DEFINES A DEEPFAKE AS A VIDEO, PICTURE OR AUDIO RECORDING THAT IS, “So realistic that a reasonable personification would judge it depicts reside aliases behaviour of an individual who did not successful truth prosecute successful specified reside aliases conduct.” 

IN MANY CASES, THE CONTENT WOULD BE RELEASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR DISTRIBUTED WITHIN DAYS OF VOTERS CASTING THEIR BALLOTS–DEPENDING ON THE DEEPFAKE, IT COULD POSSIBLY MISLEAD VOTERS AND CHANGE THE ELECTION OUTCOME. 

X SAYS THIS REMOVES THE ABILITY FOR USERS TO DEBATE ON PUBLIC ISSUES AND CENSORS VALUABLE POLITICAL SPEECH. 

ESPECIALLY WITH THE THREAT OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY HANGING OVER THE PLATFORM. 

IN THE COURT DOCUMENTS X SAYS, “Under this enforcement system, platforms that support up contented presenting a adjacent telephone nether nan statute tally nan consequence of criminal penalties, but location is nary punishment for erring connected nan broadside of excessively overmuch censorship.” 

THE LAW SAYS PEOPLE WHO SHARE A POST OR PICTURE THEY KNOW TO BE A DEEPFAKE COULD FACE PENALITIES, IF ITS WITHIN 90 DAYS OF AN ELECTION. 

FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE STATE LAW, TWO LAWSUITS BY A MINNESOTA LAWMAKER AND SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER ALSO CHALLENGED FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS–BUT A JUDGE ULTIMATELY REJECTED THEIR COMPLAINTS.

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