Artificial Intelligence, GANs, and the law of Synthetic Data: Lawmakers React to False Media Content
It didn’t take long for someone to turn generative adversarial networks (GAN)–a machine learning technique that at first blush seemed benign and of somewhat limited utility at its unveiling–into a tool with the ability to cause real harm. Now, Congress has stepped up and passed legislation to focus the federal government’s attention on the technology. If signed by the president, the legislation will require two federal agencies to study the role GANs play in…