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This software is just a precursor to what could be possible in the future. You could conceivably tell the software a caption and it would generate a video for you. How can you control what software someone runs offline locally? You can't. I find it irrational to even think of such legislation.

Posting such generated content online is another matter though. It would probably already violate some preexisting laws.

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> How can you control what software someone runs offline locally? You can't. I find it irrational to even think of such legislation.

This is what DRM and Content ID are. They're not perfect, but plenty are trying, and it does stop most non-technical people.

I don't think you have thought it through. Those work using a blacklist only. First, you can't force people to run DRM on their system. Even if you could, the ML based generator will always generate some new and random that foils the DRM. You will basically need to force people to run an ML model on their system which serves as an intelligent dyanmic DRM, and thia dictatorial idea is acceptable nowhere.

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