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David James

‘Check that guy’s hard drive’: 132 Minnesota Reps vote for ban on using AI to generate naked kids, just one Republican opposed it

For better or worse, AI is transforming the world. On the plus side, it’s now easy to generate videos of squirrels doing the Macarena and pictures of yourself hanging out with Arnold Schwarzenegger. On the downside, it’s putting millions of people out of work, consuming a ridiculous amount of precious natural resources, and eroding the very concept of truth. So, a mixture of good and bad.

Lawmakers across the world are grappling with how to regulate AI, but Minnesota lawmakers just took a firm cross-party stance on something that frankly shouldn’t need to be debated.

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