As there is chatter about "deepfakes":

1) I kind of find the idea of putting, say, the pope in a puffy coat to be funny. I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing. I think people making such memes comes with the territory of someone being such a distinctive public figure.

2) As always, I'd like to separate the concepts of "sexual harassment" from "using generative AI to make consensual / non-existent porn". One proposed federal bill seemed to do that, though it seemed to have a weird negligence standard (I think not necessarily the "harm" one), but I also don't know enough about it.

3) https://qoto.org/@olives/111776493875055997 Kitchen sink bills have a much higher risk of impinging on free expression. Elizabeth highlights some of the issues which a bill might run into.