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Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…
PM Starmer Calls Sexualized Deepfakes and Revenge Porn a 'National Emergency'The United Kingdom inched closer to requiring tech firms to scan all user-uploaded images, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer said sexualized deepfakes and so-called revenge porn constituted a "national emergency."
Elon Musk's Social Media Network Faces Mounting Backlash from GovernmentsThe British communications regulator is formally investigating social media network X over the willingness of its Grok AI to let users virtually undress people, including minors. Ofcom said Monday that will probe whether X is complying with the Online Safety Act.
New Hiya data finds 26% of UK consumers encountered a deepfake scam call in Q4 2024
The UK government is cracking down on the generation of sexually explicit deepfakes in a bid to protect women and girls
Firm Won't Deploy Feature in the EU, UK Due to Data Collection NormsMeta is rolling out facial recognition technology on its social media platforms to spot scam ads featuring celebrity deepfakes. Meta took down 8,000 of the "celeb bait" scam ads. The feature also aims to verify the identities of users locked out of their Facebook or Instagram accounts.
New government grants for AI safety research are designed to fund work into deepfakes and other cyber risks
According to the researchers, roughly 250 fake advertisements appeared on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and some are reportedly still up and running.
Governments should “police the content rather than the technology used to create it,” Matthew Feeney from the Centre for Policy Studies argued in a new paper
Mitek surveyed 1500 financial services risk and innovation professionals in UK, US and Spain
AI-Led Disinformation Campaign, Deepfakes Biggest Threats, Experts WarnNation-state-led disinformation campaigns intended at eroding public trust are the biggest threat to the upcoming U.K. election, experts told a parliamentary panel on Monday. Incidents of disinformation created with artificial intelligence have already appeared.