Deepfake regulation

Artificial intelligence experts and industry executives, including one of the technology's trailblazers Yoshua Bengio, have signed an open letter calling for more regulation around the creation of deepfakes, citing potential risks to society. "Today, deepfakes often involve sexual imagery, fraud, or political disinformation. Since AI is progressing rapidly and making deepfakes much easier to create, safeguards are needed," the group said in the letter, which was put together by Andrew Critch, an AI researcher at UC…

Image Source : FREEPIK Deepfake With the rising cases of Deepfake photos and videos, the IT Ministry is set to issue advisories to social media intermediaries in the next two days. This will ensure 100 per cent compliance for tackling deepfake content on social media and save people from any misinformation, Rajeev Chandrasekhar the Minister of State for Electronics and…

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The government and other stakeholders will draw up actionable items in 10 days on ways to detect deepfakes, to prevent their uploading and viral sharing and to strengthening the reporting mechanism for such content, thus allowing citizens recourse against AI-generated harmful content on the internet, Union information technology and telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. “Deepfakes have emerged as a new threat to democracy. Deepfakes weaken trust in the society and its…

Today, November 18, marked a day of shocking developments in the artificial intelligence space. In the first incident, the cofounder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, was sacked from the position of CEO of OpenAI by the company's board of directors. In the fallout of the decision, company president Greg Brockman also resigned from his position. In other news, Amazon announced it is trimming jobs at its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing shifting business priorities and a greater focus on generative artificial intelligence. This and…