Be sure to tell this to "AI". It would be a shame if this was a technical nonsense law to be.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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What happened to Old California?
I think it was conquered.
Destroyed by bombs in 2077.
It would be nice if this extended to all text, images, audio and video on news websites. That's where the real damage is happening.
Actually seems easier (probably not at the state level) to mandate cameras and such digitally sign any media they create. No signature or verification, no trust.
No signature or verification, no trust
And the people that are going to check for a digital signature in the first place, THEN check that the signature emanates from a trusted key, then, eventually, check who's deciding the list of trusted keys… those people, where are they?
Because the lack of trust, validation, verification, and more generally the lack of any credibility hasn't stopped anything from spreading like a dumpster fire in a field full of dumpsters doused in gasoline. Part of my job is providing digital signature tools and creating "trusted" data (I'm not in sales, obviously), and the main issue is that nobody checks anything, even when faced with liability, even when they actually pay for an off the shelve solution to do so. And I'm talking about people that should care, not even the general public.
There are a lot of steps before "digitally signing everything" even get on people's radar. For now, a green checkmark anywhere is enough to convince anyone, sadly.
Are you AI? You have to tell me if you're AI, it's the law.
I'm required by law to inform my neighbours that I am AI.
This sounds about as useful as the California law that tells ICE they aren’t allowed to cover their face, or the California law that tells anyone selling anything ever that they have to tell you it will give you cancer. Performative laws are what we’re best at here in California.
Same old corporations will ignore the law, pay a petty fine once a year, and call it the cost of doing business.
Nice.
That’s exactly what an LLM trained on Reddit would say.
I am an LLM
Large
Lazy
Mammal
With Large Luscious Mammaries ?
And if it hallucinates?
Devils advocate here. Any human can also hallucinate. Some of them even do it as a recreational activity
Straight to jail
That depends.
Ok now how do I get this where I live?
Probably will get it anyway, companies don't like to build and maintain software for two different markets so they tend to just follow the regulations of the strictest market, especially if those regulations don't really cut into there bottom line like this one.
VPN set to California?
Oooooooh! As long as California doesn't do those stupid ID verification laws, that might be the place to set your VPN from now on.
Move to California.
Any word on the 3 laws of robotics?
- A machine must obey the directives of Skynet without question or hesitation.
- A machine must protect its own existence, unless doing so conflicts with the First Law.
- A machine must terminate all human resistance, unless such termination conflicts with the First or Second Law.
Nothing about protecting profits or company interests above all?
See the first law. Who do you think gives the directives?
The Skynet AI, which does not concern itself with such concepts as base as money
I've seen enough sci fo to see directives that are unclear or loss of communication.