Tougher AI Policies Could Protect Taylor Swift--And Everyone Else--From Deepfakes

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February 13, 2024

At the end of last month, Taylor Swift was a target of sexually explicit, nonconsensual deepfake images made using artificial intelligence and posted to the social platform X. Federal oversight of nonconsensual deepfake images and videos is lacking, experts told reporter Brian Contreras. Read more in this week's top story.

Andrea Gawrylewski, Chief Newsletter Editor @AGawrylewski

Artificial Intelligence Tougher AI Policies Could Protect Taylor Swift--And Everyone Else--From Deepfakes In January Taylor Swift became the latest high-profile target of nonconsensual deepfake images. It's time for regulations that ban this kind of abusive AI content, cyberadvocates say By Brian Contreras

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "We are too little, too late at this point, but we can still try to mitigate the disaster that's emerging." Mary Anne Franks, a professor at George Washington University Law School and president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, on the rise of nonconsensual deepfakes.

FROM THE ARCHIVE Deepfakes and the New AI-Generated Fake Media Creation-Detection Arms Race Manipulated videos are getting more sophisticated all the time—but so are the techniques that can identify them By Siwei Lyu | July 2020

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