>I'm also not sure what's so regulated about the internet besides net neutrality in certain countries.
generally things are regulated on the internet that were not going to ever be regulated because it was on the internet - example - sales taxes, perhaps you are old enough to remember when sales tax collection would not ever be enforceable on internet transactions - those idiot lawyer don't know, it's on the internet, the sale didn't happen in that country or in that state no sales taxes will never happen on the internet hah hah. It's unenforceable, it is logically undoable, there are so many edge cases - ugh, the law just does not understand technology!
oops, sales taxes now on internet purchases.
GDPR is another example of things that are regulated on the internet that basically most of HN years before it happened was completely convinced would be impossible!!
If this thing becomes too big a problem for the societies regulations will be done, with varying levels of effectiveness I'm sure.
And then in twenty years time we will be saying what, you can't regulate genital eating viral synths because a guy can make those in his garage and spread them via nasal spray, this technology is unstoppable and unregulatable, not like some open source deepfake library!!
It's always amusing listening to techies' musings on law... lots of misunderstandings, I suspect due to the helpful but inaccurate "code but for humans" analogy.
generally things are regulated on the internet that were not going to ever be regulated because it was on the internet - example - sales taxes, perhaps you are old enough to remember when sales tax collection would not ever be enforceable on internet transactions - those idiot lawyer don't know, it's on the internet, the sale didn't happen in that country or in that state no sales taxes will never happen on the internet hah hah. It's unenforceable, it is logically undoable, there are so many edge cases - ugh, the law just does not understand technology!
oops, sales taxes now on internet purchases.
GDPR is another example of things that are regulated on the internet that basically most of HN years before it happened was completely convinced would be impossible!!
If this thing becomes too big a problem for the societies regulations will be done, with varying levels of effectiveness I'm sure.
And then in twenty years time we will be saying what, you can't regulate genital eating viral synths because a guy can make those in his garage and spread them via nasal spray, this technology is unstoppable and unregulatable, not like some open source deepfake library!!