“I reckon the U.S. Supreme Court does not like millions of people being able to afford to make payments on their student loans,” said one journalist who had benefited from the SAVE program. Millions of student loan borrowers whose monthly payments had been reduced by U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest attempt to achieve debt relief […]
“The potential harms to our society that could result from such misinformation, including abuses of our elections, are wide-reaching and immensely damaging.” U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s posting of artificial intelligence-generated images suggesting pop star Taylor Swift had endorsed him earned him the ridicule of Swift’s fans and journalists this week, but at least one pro-democracy […]
Proposals to lower housing, childcare, and healthcare costs for millions of families are “a welcome step in the right direction,” said one advocate. After announcing earlier this week that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris plans to take on corporate price gouging with the first-ever federal ban in the food and grocery industries, the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign on Friday […]
“The FEC is the nation’s election protection agency and it has authority to regulate deepfakes as part of its existing authority to prohibit fraudulent misrepresentations,” said Robert Weissman of Public Citizen. An announcement by the U.S. Federal Election Commission on Thursday that it will not take action to regulate artificial intelligence-generated “deepfakes” in political ads […]