SebastianBlue
President, International Julian Alvarez Fan Club
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If it is a major media outlet that distributes the verifiably edited or generated photo/video without journalistic scrutiny, then, yes, you could likely sue.If I have posted this in the wrong thread I apologise but I wondered about this photoshopping/AIing stuff.
If someone publishes a picture of you with someone else that has been doctored by including someone who was not with you at the time but it could cause you problems, similar I guess to Kamala Harris appearing to be with Epstein(?), could you sue the publication/publisher/individual who posted that photo? Would it be considered libel? Surely you just can't go around willy nilly altering photos to put people in a bad light?
Or am I just being naive?
But if it is merely being distributed via social media by non-media users, especially on Twxttxr, then it is very difficult to litigate.
In many ways Elon Musk has based his entire persona on that unfortunate reality, using Twxttxr as a platform to say whatever he wants (and instigate his followers to act on his behalf), with “plausible deniability” as merely exercising his free speech on a decentralised social network (even though neither are really true most of the time).
The situation is made worse by there being very few actual laws on the books (in the US, UK, or even the EU, though the continent is in the process of attempting to pass regulations as we speak, so they are well ahead of us in that regard) that specifically pertain to highly realistic AI alteration or generation.
Many, many experts and commentators have said that this is a recipe for chaos in every sphere of human endeavour, but particularly the political and economic realms.
And we have already begun to see that mayhem take shape.