US lawmakers attack categories of deepfake but miss everyday fraud

A pair of U.S. House of Representative members have introduced a bill intended to restrict unauthorized fraudulent digital replicas of people.

The bulk of the motivation behind the legislation, based on the wording of the bill, is the protection of actors, people of notoriety and girls and women defamed through fraudulent porn made with their face template.

Curiously, the very real threat of using deepfakes to defraud just about everyone else in the nation is not mentioned. Those risks are …

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