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they say, “Hey we won’t use your voice or likeness unless you’re properly compensated and understand what we’re doing.” Oh sure, the EU, US Congress and governments in most responsible countries have published variations of the NO FAKE ACT to protect people and ensure folks act responsibly. Are you kidding us? Bad guys/gals love the new technology designed to make your life easier, better. Catch President Obama’s synthetic likeness/discussion, or Tom Hanks’, Gayle Kings’, Oprah’s likenesses pitching stuff, or worse the atrocities being caried out around the world and posted on social media condemning one side or how bout those videos of the girl down the hall? It’s at the point where honest, dedicated news professionals are challenged on everything they write/photograph, no matter how mundane. And we haven’t even warmed up to the elections around the country, around the globe. Sure, TikTok, YouTube, Tinder and the rest of the social sites have fantastic synthetic media policies that say you can’t make/post that stuff … so what? So, you put these powerful, self-learning, self-healing tools in the hands of amateurs, pervs and lazy quick-buck artists and what happens? The cheapfake AI tools don’t have a conscience, don’t have empathy, don’t differentiate right from wrong. Heck, they don’t even have feelings. And at some level, they want to be the best fake possible. And if they haven’t already, will undoubtedly evolve to the point where they to where they think they’re important and must survive and thrive. No? Did you see HAL in 2001? Remember Oscar Wilde’s essay … “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Artificial Intelligence holds the promise of a lot of benefits that can improve humankind; but it is just as flawed as humans because we developed, refined, nurtured it and are releasing it as rapidly as possible everywhere to do good or … People have never developed something like this that is so flexible, benign and capable of doing so much-- actually anything we want, without