Notwithstanding the tendentious assumption in the other comment thread that courts are maximally adversarial processes bent on on misreading legislation to achieve their perverted ends, I would bet that the relevant courts would not in fact rule that a bunch of deepfaked child porn counted as "Other grave harms to public safety and security that are of comparable severity to the harms described in subparagraphs (A) to (C), inclusive", where those other things are "CBRN > mass casualties", "cyberattack on critical infra", and "autonomous action > mass casualties". Happy to take such a bet at 2:1 odds.
But there are some simpler reason that particular hypothetical fails:
See:
(2) “Critical harm” does not include any of the following:
(A) Harms caused or materially enabled by information that a covered model or covered model derivative outputs if the information is otherwise reasonably publicly accessible by an ordinary person from sources other than a covered model or covered model derivative.
It only counts if the $500m comes from "cyber attacks on critical infrastructure" or "with limited human oversight, intervention, or supervision....results in death, great bodily injury, property damage, or property loss."
So emotional damages, even if severe and pervasive, can't get you there.
Recently, there was a post on SB-1047 and how it's quite mild regulation. I'm not expert on it and don't know how it works.
In the comment section I was asking:
I'm surprised that my comment didn't get any engagement where people explained how they think the law will handle those cases while at the same time my post got no karma votes.
I'd love to believe that the law is well thought out, and simply a good step for AI safety. At the same time, I also like having accurate beliefs about the effects of the law, so let me repeat my question here.
How does the law handle damage caused by deep fake porn or fraud with voice cloning?