Gaetz: Can I sell my voice to a robot & make money? Robot Has Free Speech? liability?

Gaetz: We Must Protect Americans From AI Deepfakes!

On 2/2/2024, Country star Lainey Wilson and Recording Academy president/CEO Harvey Mason voiced their support for federal regulation of AI technology at a hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet in Los Angeles.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R – FL). “If tomorrow I wanted to sell my voice to a robot and let that robot say whatever in the world that it wanted to say, and I wanted to take the money from that sale and go buy a sailboat and never turn on the internet again, why should I not have the right to do that?” he asked.

Christopher Mohr, who serves as president of the Software & Information Industry Association. He spoke little and mostly reiterated that his members wanted the courts to answer key questions around AI. “It’s really important that these cases get thoroughly litigated,” Mohr said.

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Gaetz: Can I sell my voice to a robot & make money? Robot Has Free Speech? liability?

Key Points

Gaetz: We Must Protect Americans From AI Deepfakes

• On 2/2/2024, Country star Lainey Wilson and Recording Academy president/CEO Harvey Mason voiced their support for federal regulation of AI technology at a hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet in Los Angeles
• “If tomorrow I wanted to sell my voice to a robot and let that robot say whatever in the world that it wanted to say, and I wanted to take the money from that sale and go buy a sailboat and never turn on the internet again, why should I not have the right to do that
• Christopher Mohr, who serves as president of the Software & Information Industry Association

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• She is the most famous person in the world
• And so to me it seems as though she’s just the first wave in the set
• And that coming is a regime in which any prominent person could be subject to these deep fakes
• And technology platforms can then generate revenue off of it and then don’t want to be liable for that
• My heart is beating out of my chest right now even just thinking about it
• And just like I said earlier, my reputation is everything to me
• Moore and his testimony say that actually when these technologies do like what we saw with Johnny Cash and Barbie Girl or perhaps even with Taylor Swift and the deep fake explicit videos, that that could be First Amendment protected speech
• Do you think that your representatives in Congress ought to repose First Amendment speech rights on robots creating deep fakes and explicit videos
• Robots should not be subject to free speech
• I can’t even believe I have to say that out loud

Full transcript: 704 words transcribed via Whisper AI.