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Microsoft wants Congress to outlaw AI-generated deepfake fraud


Microsoft wants a deepfake fraud statute.

Smith is also calling on lawmakers to “ensure that our federal and state laws on child sexual exploitation and abuse and non-consensual intimate imagery are updated to include AI-generated content.” The bill was passed months after middle and high school students were found to be fabricating explicit images of female classmates, and trolls flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI-generated fakes. Elon Musk shared a deepfake video spoofing Vice President Kamala Harris on X earlier this week, in a post that appears to violate X’s own policies against synthetic and manipulated media.

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