China bans deepfakes created without permission or for evil

China's Cyberspace Administration has issued guidelines on how to do deepfakes the right way. Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to create realistic depictions – usually videos – of humans saying and/or doing things they didn't say and/or do. They're controversial outside China for their potential to mislead audiences and …

[Winkypop]

Pooh bear has rights too!

He probably doesn’t like being compared to that Xi Jinping dictator.

[jmch]

"socialist values"

"created without permission or for evil"

In communist China that's a circular reference - state permission washes any ethical abomination clean, while anything done without permission is automatically evil. There is no ethical framework for 'good' and 'evil', the state decides what's what (and as per 1984, can change that at a whim).

An economy of state-backed capitalism combined with complete authoritarianism in every other respect is, in fact, almost as far from socialist values as you can get

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Re: "socialist values"

Back in the old days when a paper broke the conception of "acceptable online published content." the pages were just moved into the bathroom and placed next to the toilet, torn into six inch squares ... let's quit everything and just delete crap now.