“A person can now go to prison for up to 3 years if they use AI to make sexually explicit deepfake images or videos of someone.
The same punishment now also applies to anyone who shares – or even threatens to share – those images or videos.
Creating or sharing sexually explicit sound recordings of someone without their consent, even if the audio is fake, is a crime now too.” AI gets off scot free, nice work.
Good Morning. This was the opening salvo of an email I received this morning. It’s just the oh-so-friendly Aussie government letting everyone know what’s been banned this week, and how much prison time you can expect for defying this latest edict. This comes from the NSW Government Service and Information Department of Inclusivity and Joy.
These are the same people who lied to my face that they would remove the commercial part from my driver’s licence, and issue me a regular one. No big deal right? It’s effectively a downgrade with less red tape and I haven’t driven a big rig actually ever. I’ve used the fucking thing about three times in 20 fucking years. It’s a burden. The guy at the RTA told me to my face, that sure, he would issue me a regular one. I got the same Heavy Vehicle license back in the mail.
Now they have taken the whole thing away from me because it’s a commercial license, and I have no driver’s licence at all. Unless I’m willing to spend three grand and at least week of my non refundable lifetime to travel down there and talk to some other fool who may or may not fix the problem. Fuck these people. I mean really. FUCK THESE FUCKING PEOPLE, plus tax.
At least if I lived there and presumably was of Asian descent, I would be able to get the princely sum of $150 to put towards my massive energy bill, but I don’t. I know this is kind of political talk, which I vowed to not speak of. Politics is like homosexuality to me. It’s “The love that dare not speak its name”, except I don’t love it and I hate talking about it, so I’ll stop now.
When is it man’s week I wonder? Is that a tranny on the left? Men can be women after all.
Band practice has been cancelled today. It would have been Tuesday but Rick cancelled that, and now Jon has cancelled this, so what can ya do? It doesn’t really bother me. I’ve got another bunch of cats coming on Saturday, so I need to get ready for that. I want to record some new material so I’ll have to make some charts for Scott, the keyboard player. Gary doesn’t use them and Pat the drummer doesn’t need them. It’s all a lotta work I tell ya. It’s not easy being an obscure, barely visible refugee from the 80’s post punk movement, but I will soldier on, confident that I will never ever be inducted into any Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anywhere in the Universe.
Phil May from the Pretty Things contemplates whether they will ever be in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.
It’s very early for me to be writing this. It’s just gone 7.25 am, but I have a lot to do. I have to return something that I bought on Ebay. Kids, Ebay’s return policies are really good, and the customer is pretty much always right. That’s a positive aspect in today’s world of corporate stupidity and incompetence.
Good Day.
ps Tomorrow I will post a new video that was recorded on the 16th of this month. You’re gonna love it (or not)
One of the few shows I have played in Sydney this century.