Policy Reporter
Gaby Del Valle is a policy reporter at The Verge. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right.
The people suing Minnesota over its law reining in political deepfakes have submitted a filing (PDF) asking the judge to withdraw a declaration supporting the law.
Why? Because, as Stanford misinformation expert Jeff Hancock recently admitted, it was written with help from ChatGPT, which generated incorrect citations in the document.
Frank Bednarz, the lawyer for the defendants, tells The Verge:
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s decision not to retract a report they’ve acknowledged contains fabrications seems problematic given the professional ethical obligation attorneys have to the court.
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Elon Musk’s new DOGE plans are actually old ideas about mass deregulation
Behind DOGE’s memey name is a plot to dismantle the federal government.
Gaetz announced he was withdrawing from consideration for Attorney General on Thursday — shortly after being asked to comment on the House Ethics Committee’s report into alleged sexual misconduct with underage girls.
Per CNN, the a woman said she had two sexual encounters with Gaetz in 2017, when she was 17 years old. A hacker reportedly gained access to a file with “damaging” details about Gaetz, including the woman’s testimony.
Sources tell Reuters that EU regulators will likely look into whether Amazon is favors its own products on its retail platform — a violation of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.
In March, the European Commission confirmed that it was looking into Amazon’s ranking practices. At the time, an Amazon spokesperson said the company’s practices were compliant with the DMA.