Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sent a letter Monday asking Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, for details about how the platform plans to combat nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes. Google search results for the word “deepfakes” and names of female celebrities often return links to such material when safety features […]
Robert Irwin, the son of famed conservationist Steve Irwin.Monica Schipper/Getty Images Scammers are using deepfake celebrity videos to steal from fans. Fake photos of police arresting Robert Irwin were used to set up a fake investment opportunity. Scams like these have stolen over $8 million in Australia alone. Scammers in Australia are using deepfake photos […]
US President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology. New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and share those realistic images across chatrooms or social […]
An Arizona state representative behind a new law that regulates deepfakes in elections used an artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, to write part of the law – specifically, the part that defines what a deepfake is. Republican Alexander Kolodin’s bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers and was signed by the Democratic governor this week, will […]
In November last year, Muralikrishnan Chinnadurai was watching a livestream of a Tamil-language event in the UK when he noticed something odd. A woman introduced as Duwaraka, daughter of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil Tiger militant chief, was giving a speech. The problem was that Duwaraka had died more than a decade earlier, in an airstrike […]
“Last year was tough for everyone,” said a Chinese AI boss as he addressed a recent annual general meeting, and 2023 had indeed been tough for him. He died. A growing number of people in China are buying AI-generated avatars of loved ones to help process their grief, raising a number of ethical and legal […]
AI voice tech company ElevenLabs is grappling with deepfakes. The technology, while innovative, has the potential for misuse, leading to concerns from lawmakers. ElevenLabs CEO said digitally watermarking synthetic voices is a solution. Companies at the forefront of AI voice technology are grappling with how to regulate deepfakes without stifling innovation. “It’s going to be […]
May 5—With election season poised to start, New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver is trying to make the public more aware of the ways deepfakes and artificial intelligence can be used to manipulate election information. The primary elections will be June 4 and early voting begins Tuesday. What is a deepfake? Deepfakes are […]
Apr. 12—The “Innocence Act,” a newly proposed House bill backed by multiple state agencies and a strong lineup of state representatives, would greatly alter the landscape for operators of sexually explicit websites here in Ohio, if it were to go into effect. Under the sweeping bill, porn websites would be legally obligated to verify the […]
It’s Election Day in Arizona and elderly voters in Maricopa County are told by phone that local polling places are closed due to threats from militia groups. Meanwhile, in Miami, a flurry of photos and videos on social media show poll workers dumping ballots. The phone calls in Arizona and the videos in Florida turn […]
It’s Election Day in Arizona and elderly voters in Maricopa County are told by phone that local polling places are closed due to threats from militia groups. Meanwhile, in Miami, a flurry of photos and videos on social media show poll workers dumping ballots. The phone calls in Arizona and the videos in Florida turn […]
Legislation that criminalizes the use of “deepfakes” generated by artificial intelligence to impersonate candidates in political campaign ads cleared the Georgia House of Representatives Thursday. House Bill 986, which passed 148-22, creates the crime of fraudulent election interference. Anyone who knowingly perpetrates a political deepfake within 90 days of an election would face two to […]