Denmark’s culture minister, Zenia Stampe, put a bill before the Folketing on 8 October banning publication of realistic digital imitations of a person’s appearance, voice and movements without consent. She proposes effect from 1 January 2027. It is the second attempt: the prior version lapsed in Danish elections, after the 31 March 2026 and 1 … Read more
A CHI 2025 experiment from the MIT Media Lab is drawing fresh attention for an uncomfortable finding: people who view AI-edited images or AI-generated videos are markedly more likely to misremember what they originally saw—and more confident that their false recollections are correct. The study, co-authored by memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus of the University of … Read more
AI-generated political advertising has moved from novelty to major line item in the 2026 U.S. midterms. The Wesleyan Media Project has identified 220 ads made at least partly with AI tools, backed by more than $137 million in spending—yet only 27% carried any disclaimer that the technology was used. The findings, released on October 15, … Read more
An Italian court has convicted two men for creating and distributing a sexually explicit deepfake of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, sentencing each to just over two years in prison and ordering them to pay €100,000 in damages — compensation Meloni has said she will donate to a fund supporting victims of gender-based violence. The verdict, … Read more