Comment from Lee, Jacqueline
Jacqueline LeeSupportIndividual
Summary: An individual expresses concern over the harmful impact of AI-generated deepfakes and misinformation on the elderly and emergency services. They support the policy statement by highlighting the need to address the lack of identification and the ease of removing watermarks from AI content.
There have already been several cases of my elderly relatives being fooled by AI generated disaster emergencies, presidential announcements, foreign leader announcements, and news reports. It is deeply distressing to them and to us when we have to explain repeatedly that there are not bombings happening in our state or declarations of war between the US and fictional countries. Deep fakes of these kinds of serious events are not only harmful to emergency services' ability to respond accurately to calls, but to the stress and health of people going about their days. The ability to crop out/smudge AI water marks and have no other identification that something is genAI makes having those conversations increasingly difficult.