White House Pushes Tech Industry To Shut Down Market for Abusive AI Deepfakes
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 media.
America’s Adversaries Will Try to Use AI to Influence Election, Security Officials Warn
Previous efforts by federal agencies to call out foreign disinformation on platforms have become caught up in debates over government surveillance and First Amendment rights.
How Lawmakers Are Addressing Deepfakes Like the Ones That Victimized Taylor Swift
State lawmakers across the U.S. have been searching for ways to quash such nonconsensual deepfake images of both adults and children.
Lawmakers Question Meta and X on Rules Against AI-Generated Political Deepfakes
Two Democratic members of Congress sent a letter Thursday to CEOs of Meta and X expressing “serious concerns” about the emergence of AI-generated political ads on their platforms.
In 2018, Christie’s auction house in New York sold a painting, Portrait of Edmond Bellamy, for $432,500. This sales price was significant. Not because it was exceptionally high—Christie’s has had many sales that would dwarf this price—but because the painting was not made by a human being. It was created by a computer using artificial intelligence (AI).