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Gavin Newsom signs bills to help provide AI protections for actors in c/politics@sh.itjust.works

[–] theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

One of the laws, AB 2602, protects artists from being bound to contracts that allow the use of their digital voices or images, whether in lieu of their actual work or to train AI.

The other law, AB 1836, specifically protects digital likenesses as part of performers’ posthumous right of publicity, a legal right that protects people’s identities from unauthorized commercial use.

Good for them, seems necessary. Nothing to protect regular people, of course.

I am tired of all my friends viewing me as a child. in c/autism@lemmy.world

[–] theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 weeks ago

Wow. That's an awful toxic way to view and talk to you and your friend should feel bad.

Etsy sellers are striking and asking for a boycott. in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml

[–] theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a failed Etsy seller, I spent the last of my spare cash on a bunch of materials for some nice product and crafted said product. Etsy wanted photos of me making the product with papers and dates and such. I just couldn't and so quit