Expert opinions on Deepfakes

When you get into particular instances of propaganda like deepfakes, that’s where you’d want to ask what the law is in Canada. That should apply to Canadians, citizens and anybody in the sense that we should have a way of avoiding the misuse of that ...

A media environment with more false and deceptive information is not a good thing for our society, but it is not the government's job to fix it. [...] Let's trust the American people, not the government, to decide for themselves how AI should be used...

More important than that is recognizing that the harm comes from three things: the absence of consent, the collapse of context and the exercise of power.

A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...