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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is reintroducing her bill to provide civil recourse for survivors of nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfakes. Ocasio-Cortez is co-leading the bicameral bill with Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act was originally …

Last May, actress Scarlett Johansson released a blistering statement about the release of a new voice for OpenAI‘s ChatGPT 4.0 bot, called “Sky.” To many — including her “closest friends,” Johansson said — the voice was indistinguishable from her own. That would have been unsettling enough, but it so happened …

The AI scam scourge has come for national treasure Tom Hanks — again. The actor was forced to share a message on Instagram warning fans not to fall for ads “falsely using my name, likeness, and voice promoting miracle cures and wonder drugs.” Hanks said these ads were “created without …

Elon Musk recently made headlines when he posted a deepfake video of Vice President Kamala Harris, with manipulated audio to make it sound like she called herself the “ultimate diversity hire” who doesn’t know the “first thing about running the country.” A month earlier, a Republican congressional candidate in Michigan …

The Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to provide recourse to victims of porn deepfakes — or sexually-explicit, non-consensual images created with artificial intelligence. The legislation, called the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act — passed in Congress’ upper chamber on Tuesday. The legislation has been led …

Swing voters indicate they may not vote for President Joe Biden because he is too old and incompetent. That narrative is already widely believed — but as Republicans try to add fuel to the fire, they have resorted to spreading deceptively edited videos to make Biden appear incapacitated, confused, and …

The artificial intelligence deepfake scourge has claimed another susceptible victim: Katy Perry’s mom. Perry was definitely not at the Met Gala last night, but photos of “her” in a billowing floral gown befitting the “Garden of Time” dress code nevertheless started circulating online. Arguably, with a quick glance, one could …

A lexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in a car talking with her staffers about legislation and casually scrolling through her X mentions when she saw the photo. It was the end of February, and after spending most of the week in D.C., she was looking forward to flying down to Orlando to …

“Grandma locked me in an oven at 230 degrees when I was just 21 months old,” the cherubic baby with giant blue eyes and a floral headband says in the TikTok video. The baby, who speaks in an adorably childish voice atop the plaintive melody of Dylan Mathew‘s “Love Is …

Taylor Klein will remind you of someone you know. A math-whiz engineer from an engineering family, her Facebook feed is littered with photos of her eating ice cream, studying, and enjoying the great outdoors — the most innocent of pastimes. We are introduced to her via video diary, where she …