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Some videos that are claimed to be of Cardinal Sarah have gone viral recently. He's supposed to be talking about an apparition that he had, and about the Three Days of Darkness. They are fake. https://open.substack.com/pub/avemariap ... medium=web

This kind of thing scares me.

This is why the correct response to AI is not to ban or fear it, but regulate it and set ethical boundaries about its proper and improper use. Granted, no law is going to make people do anything, and any ethical boundaries can be ignored, but we can build the next generation of AI with the ethical boundaries built in, making it more difficult to misuse it. Issac Asimov was right when he created The Three Laws of Robotics. His point was that the way to respond to fear of technogy is to impose ethical limits on it, not ban it.

Doom wrote: ↑Sun Jan 04, 2026 9:00 am This is why the correct response to AI is not to ban or fear it, but regulate it and set ethical boundaries about its proper and improper use. Granted, no law is going to make people do anything, and any ethical boundaries can be ignored, but we can build the next generation of AI with the ethical boundaries built in, making it more difficult to misuse it. Issac Asimov was right when he created The Three Laws of Robotics. His point was that the way to respond to fear of technogy is to impose ethical limits on it, not ban it.

Are there any rules at the moment that state if your likeness was used in an AI video that you did not authorize that you can sue?

If not, that's something that would truncate its use.

I offer that the digital world, including AI, currently contains an infinite series of avenues, processes, content, and outcomes. In time, say next month, the infinite number of digital trees with each sprout an infinite number of branches, each growing an infinite number of leaves. Infinite, certainly, in comparison to any other phenomenon in the history of homo sapiens.

Within that forested landscape, laws, social conventions, agreements, barriers, and standards will channel much usage and content into normative terrain. However, a significant fraction of activity, perhaps half, will occur in unbridled badlands Where constraints, particularly to AI, will not operate.

You may guess that, absent dictatorial seizure of all means of communication, I see nothing available or upcoming that will limit AIs.

There is the problem of AI cannibalism.

Take some generative AI tool that can make music for you (but it could be any tool for any purpose). When it first starts it has a broad spectrum of human made music to pull from. After a little while the pool of data the AI tool pulls from starts including a certain percentage of AI-generated music along with human-generated music. As more and more people (for earnestness or poops-n-giggles) create ever increasing amounts of AI-generated content the tool starts pulling primarily from that content.... and the outputs start looking less and less what the creator had hoped it would be. The quality degrades.

I've also seen fake stuff of +Sarah saying antisemitism stuff

Sad but not surprising.