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We need regulation of AI because something on the Internet could confuse or mislead someone? Not every potential problem needs a law to protect us. What things is AI doing that existing laws against fraud aren't protecting us from?

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Most things become a "different" problem (from legal enforcement perspective) when the scale changes. Without entering in the merit of whether laws in question are good/bad, it's understandable to have a different legal regime at larger scale, such as harsher punishment above certain thresholds. And AI-generated content changes the scale of many many things you can do.

Fraud has pretty steep punishments already, I'd have thought?

In the US, that entirely depends on how rich/powerful you are and who you defraud.

So what if the fraud is happening automatically from countries like China/ India on western civilization?

Have some voice generation, phone data from millions of people, data on who's related, a scam trained AI and some crypto wallets and let it run wild.

That's more an area where executive action is required, not legislation.

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