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Tesla lawyers claim Elon's statements abt self-driving safety could be deepfakes

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26 pointsponiko9 comments

I am waiting for the simps to come and tell us again how this modern day Barnum of technology is our best bet to save the future of humanity.

> “In other words, Mr. Musk, and others in his position, can simply say whatever they like in the public domain, then hide behind the potential for their recorded statements being a deep fake to avoid taking ownership of what they did actually say and do.”

Bullshit and lies are standard operating procedure for Tesla, especially when it comes to their so called "full self-driving".

It's funny how no one wants to take Responsibility for the bullshit when the prospect of Accountability appears on the horizon.

So the point is don't believe Elon anything.

This has been my position for a long time.

I would hope that they get severely spanked by any judge they submit(ted) that claim to.

“Their position is that because Mr. Musk is famous and might be more of a target for deep fakes, his public statements are immune,”

This is becoming true ?

My YouTube feed is full of “Elon says” videos, many of them could be deep fakes? There is zero way to prove otherwise.

Not saying in this particular case that’s true, but we have been warned about generative AI and the misinformation and misrepresentation problem and so it begins.

Elon is cunning enough to put it to work.

> My YouTube feed is full of “Elon says” videos, many of them could be deep fakes? There is zero way to prove otherwise.

by this 'logic' any CEO could claim immunity from SEC since anything they say in real life could be walked back as 'that could be a deepfake!'

Well why can't this happen ? If all you have is a video record of what was said, then you have no other evidence and it's validity can easily be questioned?

Is Elon trying to pull out 1984? Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia?

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