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Are deepfakes illegal? AI’s dark side explained

Explore the evolving world of deepfakes, where AI's potential to create realistic forgeries poses challenges across privacy and security.

Speaking to Billboard, Hartzog said it was a “toxic cocktail”, adding: “It’s an existing problem, mixed with these new generative AI tools and a broader backslide in industry commitments to trust and safety.” The bill introduces a federal framework to safeguard individuals from AI-generated fakes and forgeries, criminalizing the creation of a ‘digital depiction’ of anyone, whether alive or deceased, without consent. The threat of deepfakes is so serious that Kent Walker, Google’s president for global affairs, said earlier this year: “We have learned a lot over the last decade and we take the risk of misinformation or disinformation very seriously.

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