I support government censorship of generative AI. I want it to be illegal to knowingly share AI video footage and pass it off as real. I want AI companies to be severely penalized if they don't prevent people from using their products to generate fake videos that get passed off as real. I want generative AI companies to be forced to place highly visible warnings across all AI-generated videos with wording that explicitly says they are AI-generated, not just a little watermark in the corner that can be cropped out. I want AI companies to be harshly penalized if their chatbots encourage users to engage in harmful behavior, or if they tell users they are conscious, or if they psychologically manipulate users into forming emotional attachments to them. I want it to be illegal for companies to use bots which tell people they are talking to a real human being. I say this as an aggressive and outspoken proponent of free speech. Your right to extend your fist ends at my nose. These products threaten to erode the fabric of our society. They are attacking people's ability to understand reality and sort out fact from fiction. They are driving people insane. AI products which deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal. Fraud isn't protected speech because it hurts people and is detrimental to a functioning society, and generative AI deception shouldn't be protected for precisely those same reasons. Tech plutocrats should not be allowed to profit from sowing deception, confusion, and mental illness. The collective has the right to protect itself from harm from destructive individuals. The state is a gentler tool for this than guillotines. Governments should intervene to end these assaults on our ability to perceive and understand our world. I really don't care how much force needs to be used to rein this shit in. If people can't perceive and understand reality clearly, then everything goes to hell. Nobody knows what to think, how to act, how to vote or how to live if they can't determine what's true or false. Bring these new technologies to heel by any means necessary. It's about basic self-defense at this point.