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The federal AI deepfake-removal law turned on this week. The FTC sent warning letters to twelve nudify-AI sites Friday. Your face has a 48-hour clock now.
The FTC began enforcing the TAKE IT DOWN Act Tuesday and Friday sent warning letters to twelve nudify-AI websites. Leaked audio shows Zuckerberg explained Meta's surveillance of employee Gmail and VSCode before firing eight thousand. California's worker EO mandates studies, not protections. OpenAI is revoking its macOS code-signing certificate June 12.
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Read the full analysis on Substack ›1. The federal law that lets you demand a deepfake of your face come down in 48 hours turned on Tuesday. Friday the FTC sent letters to twelve sites that exist to make them.
If a deepfake of you (or your kid, or anyone in your family) shows up on a major platform, you now have a federal law that says the platform has 48 hours to take it down once you ask, and a website to file the complaint when they do not.
ftc.gov: FTC Sends Warning Letters to Companies About Compliance with the TAKE IT DOWN Act
2. The leaked audio shows Mark Zuckerberg defending a program that scraped Meta employees' Gmail and VSCode to train AI. The next day, eight thousand of them got the email.
If you work somewhere that issued you a company laptop running standard productivity software (Gmail or Outlook, a chat app, an IDE, an internal assistant), the leaked Meta audio is the template for what your own employer is now allowed to do with what you type into those apps.
theregister.com: Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio
3. California signed an AI worker-protection order Thursday. It directs the state to study protections that do not yet exist.
If you work in California for any company that has been talking about AI productivity, the order your governor signed Thursday is the news your employer will read into the next layoff plan.
calmatters.org: After AI layoffs, Newsom orders state government to find ways to ease the pain
4. If you have ChatGPT, Codex, or Atlas installed on a Mac, you have 19 days to update or it stops working.
If you (or anyone in your household) installed ChatGPT, Codex, or the Atlas browser on a Mac, those apps stop opening on June 13 unless you click update before June 12.