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“processed_title”: “The No Fakes Act: A ‘Fingerprinting’ Trap Endangering Open Source AI”,
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A newly proposed bill, the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (No Fakes) Act, is facing scrutiny from the open-source community. While the legislation aims to protect individuals’ digital likenesses and voices from unauthorized AI replication, experts argue it contains a significant loophole that could stifle innovation.
At the heart of the controversy is a specific provision requiring the automatic detection of digital replicas. Critics warn that to comply with this requirement, generative AI models would effectively need to embed an imperceptible, unique ‘fingerprint’ or watermark directly into their output.
This mandate poses a severe threat to open-source models. Unlike proprietary “black box” systems, open-source weights are freely available and modifiable; therefore, they cannot technically guarantee that a fingerprint remains intact after user modification. This creates a compliance trap: the bill might inadvertently make it illegal to distribute open-source AI, forcing developers to use closed, monitored ecosystems instead. As the bill moves through the Senate, tech advocates are urging for amendments that decouple likeness protection from rigid technical mandates.
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“tags”: “policy, open source, ai legislation, no fakes act, watermarking, copyright”
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