I think there should be explicit penalties for passing off movies with special effects as movies. There are externalities to society when you create something that isn't real! There should be a "MadeWith" stack for all special effects you use - no more undisclosed animatronics, makeup, or miniatures! Soon, all our trust in film will be destroyed from everyone making stop-motion movies!
> having a human in the loop to spot-check accuracy and be responsible for accuracy can earn a specific certification
This is not merely a "specific certification" or a quick "spot-check". The work to do that is not trivial and so the human that reviews the output before distribution is effectively the creator.
> I’d mandate a “BuiltWith” thing all the way down to the compilers you used for code, graphics editors for images, and what you used for sounds etc. Like Ingredients that FDA demands be listed on locally produced food in USA, but for a different reason.
I'm not sure how that would work for plaintext or generally copying pixels.
What, though, about generative content being used in a supplementary manner? There's a gamut of uses. Some artists using it as the basis for subsequent editing, some tracing (I know artists who do this now, in a sense laundering the work and to have proof of progress), others just for parts of a composition, etc.
When an individual or company takes advantage of a negative externality at the expense of wider society, it builds up. When everyone can’t afford not to take advantage of the same thing, the problem just grows - often the problems start to compound superlinearly.
They could for example maximize value by dump garbage in other people’s back yards or nuclear waste in other people’s lakes etc. At the very least, it should be disclosed publicly and honestly.
It is often the case that A and B voluntarily make a deal together (eg Snapple shifts to plastic bottles) but it may cost C a lot downstream. And as these negative externalities accumulate, they come back to haunt A and B, and all of society.
People acting in their own individual self interest, at the expense of others, can often lead to a tragedy of the unmanaged commons.
