If you recall, around September, California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, signed multiple bills aimed at Artificial Intelligence. One of the bills he passed, AB 2655, was aimed at making altered political content using Artificial Intelligence illegal. This can range from parodys or changing a persons voice to say something else.
If you remember aswell, he passed this law at the same time Kamala’s campaign was losing in the polls. This was his way of basically helping her indirectly. Its funny too, since he never did this for Donald Trump when he did his re-election bid back in 2022, even after thousands of deep fakes were made about him.
He also directed this bill to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, platform. Gavin has a deep rooted history with Elon, who because of crime and high taxes, moved his companies to Texas. Elon has also been a huge critic of Gavin in the past few years with the handling of California. Apparently Gavin still has a grudge.
Elon is suing on the basis of free speech censorship. Even though people might create AI content and make parodies of certain things, Twitter almost always has a banner under the post that tells you this content has been altered. Apparently that’s not good enough for Gavin, who rumor has it, is planning to run for President in 2028.
