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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

China's Setting the Standard for Deepfake Regulation

gizmodo.com: In a year marked by seemingly weekly advances in AI capabilities, government authorities and lawmakers around the world have struggled to keep up. Starting next month, however, Chinese regulators will put in place new rules restricting one of AI’s most nerve-racking use cases: deepfakes.

1 comment:

Joanne Jiang said...

I had no idea this was even a thing, and I was there in China when this happened, and I’m not someone who’s always looking at the news, but I’m on social media pretty often, and I’m surprised I didn’t see anything on social media relating to this. I often see things like older people being scammed because of deepfaked family members asking for things like money, but I never say news about these new laws a regulations. This makes me think that the general public does not know about this happening, and that they don’t even know that companies and technologists actually need their permission to make deepfakes with their faces. I think its smart that they didn’t impose a wholesale ban, because that would not solve or mitigate the problem at all, but this solution helps create a better environment for the deepfakes to exist in.I wonder how this is actually regulated and how they would punish those who didn’t follow the regulations.