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Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes.
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A fabricated image of a Georgia mayor kissing a man who was not her husband spread widely on Facebook before a correction caught up, illustrating how AI-generated disinformation can damage public figures and mislead voters before the truth lands.
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The UK government is establishing a National Centre for Information Defence to detect and counter foreign disinformation and AI-generated deepfakes, particularly from hostile states such as Russia. The centre will bring together intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and social media companies.
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Meta's Oversight Board has ordered Facebook to remove deepfake videos targeting a Scottish Labour councillor and a Muslim campaign volunteer in the UK, ruling that the platform was wrong to leave the content up. The board also criticized Meta's existing safeguards against AI-generated fake imagery as inadequate.
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This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian. There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI’s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to spread lies. The White House is posting slopaganda. Meanwhile, candidates are missing a real opportunity to use AI to make campaigning better. The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters’ concerns, engage constituents more inclusively, and formulate policy platforms that are more responsive to our…
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Warning follows series of safety incidents, with parliamentary committee saying threats include public face-scanning and deepfakes UK politics live – latest updates OpenAI has urged British lawmakers to capitalise on renewed fears over AI safety and impose legislation reining in the technology. The company behind ChatGPT said the UK government should act immediately, following a call by its arch-rival Anthropic to curb AI development. Continue reading...
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Influencers are finding AI-generated versions of themselves in ads they never agreed to, endorsing products they have never heard of. Emily Schuman, a lifestyle creator with over 500,000 Instagram followers, discovered a digitally altered photo of herself promoting a telehealth company's GLP-1 drugs without her knowledge or consent.
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AI-generated deepfake videos impersonating late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are circulating on social media. These fakes are reportedly easier to produce than other celebrity deepfakes and carry an elevated potential to mislead viewers.
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Brazil is developing a governance framework for deepfakes that goes beyond simply detecting synthetic media. The approach signals a shift toward regulating how deepfakes are created, distributed, and held accountable under law.
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Australia's corporate regulator has warned of a sharp rise in deepfake scams using the likeness of public figures, particularly Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, to promote fraudulent investment schemes. The scams have cost Australians at least $7.4 million.
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A UK service that helps children remove intimate images from the internet reports a sharp rise in cases involving AI-generated or manipulated explicit content featuring minors. Regulators warn that nudification tools and AI are making this kind of abuse faster and easier to carry out.
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A set of transparency requirements under the EU AI Act has entered into force, applying to chatbots, deepfake content, and AI-generated material. The rules require that people be informed when they are interacting with AI or viewing synthetic content.
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Google has paused a feature that generates AI-enhanced satellite images, following backlash from journalists, human rights advocates, and open-source researchers who warned the technology could be used to fabricate or manipulate aerial imagery at scale.
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The European Union is establishing a new team in Brussels focused on combating AI-generated deepfakes, illegal imagery, and hacking. The initiative signals a more coordinated enforcement posture from EU institutions on AI-enabled harms.
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Researchers tested leading image editing models hosted on Hugging Face and found they could be used to generate explicit deepfake images with little friction. An analysis of roughly 1,000 real user prompts provided further evidence of how the tools are actually being used in practice.
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A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.
A New York city council candidate used AI to generate fake news stories and fabricated endorsements, including a post designed to look like a CNN report targeting his opponent. The case illustrates a growing pattern of AI-generated political deception being deployed even in small local races.
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On May 19, 2026, the notice and removal requirements set forth in Section 3 of the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act (“TAKE IT DOWN Act” or “TIDA”) entered into effect. Under this section, covered platforms must establish a process for individuals to notify the platform of... Continue Reading…
Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner has found that Grok, the AI chatbot developed by xAI, along with deepfake-related services, violated the country's federal privacy law. The findings represent a notable regulatory action against AI-generated content tools operating in the Canadian market.
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Canada's Privacy Commissioner concluded an investigation finding that companies behind the Grok chatbot violated Canadian privacy law in connection with the generation of sexualized deepfakes, marking a significant regulatory enforcement action in the AI-generated content space.
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Canada's Privacy Commissioner has announced a formal investigation into Grok, xAI's chatbot, concerning its role in generating sexualized deepfake imagery. The probe examines whether the system's capabilities violate Canadian privacy law by enabling the non-consensual fabrication of intimate images of real individuals.
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Canada's Privacy Commissioner is set to publicly release the findings of a formal investigation into Grok, the AI chatbot developed by xAI, focusing on its role in generating sexualized deepfake imagery.
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The TAKE IT DOWN Act, which requires platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate images including AI-generated deepfakes, has moved into active enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission. Businesses that host user content are now expected to have compliant takedown processes in place.
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