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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – If a generative artificial intelligence deepfake damages your reputation and is one without your permission, you can now take civil action against the person who made it.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s in one of the new laws signed by Gov. Josh Green this week. It prohibits harmful uses of deepfake images or videos and creates ways for victims to be compensated, up to $25,000 for each piece of content.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoconut wireless will spread that deepfake — like the deepfake we made with you, with your permission — across the entire island, before you can even put out another word of correcting it,\u201d said A.I. consultant and educator Gabriel Yanagihara, who generated deepfakes of this reporter for an earlier story.<\/p>\n

Yanagihara said the state has moved ahead of the federal government in trying to protect people from AI-generated scams.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve been seeing a lot of scams around deepfakes where people will clone your voice or your image and try to use that to scam you out of money, to defame you, to threaten you, like, \u2018ho, I made this deepfake image of you; I\u2019m going to send this to everyone on your LinkedIn unless you send money somewhere,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it generated by a computer, or is it generated, say, by Ben Gutierrez? Was ben making his statement, or was it made by a computer that some manipulated what Ben said?,\u201d said Jerry Agrusa, a professor at the U.H. Shidler College of Business.<\/p>\n

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Agrusa co-authored a research paper on public trust in generative A.I. that was released this week. It found that more than 80% of people surveyed said deepfakes can mislead people or put personal data at risk. Only 54% said deepfakes could be useful; nearly 25% said they weren\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now we\u2019re always, \u2018Is it real, is it now real, where did it come from? And I think that if we can get some form of guardrails, we could get more of the benefits of generative A.I.,\u201d said Agrusa.<\/p>\n

The experts say the new laws help, but education will be key as A.I. spread – and improves.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust get written citations and written sources. Get permission from people, just like the video you and I got to do,\u201d said Yanagihara. \u201cHave that dialog beforehand, and don\u2019t use the tools in any way that you would Photoshop.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust is the issue,\u201d said Agrusa. \u201cIf we trust what we see as legit, then we\u2019re more likely to use it, and it\u2019s more beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n

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