If you’re interested in reading something that’s both deep and not fake – to riff on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s sad attempt to ban mockery of himself and other very fine people, you might want to grab a copy of...
Governor Gavin Newsom signed 3 bills into law on Tuesday, putting severe limitations on the use of “deepfakes” and other digitally generated or altered content in election campaigns. The first bill, Assembly Bill 2655, authored by Assemblyman Marc Berman (D-Menlo...
Manipulated photos, video, and audio, specifically “deepfake” videos that alter candidates to say or look like something or someone else, has been made illegal in California. Under the new law, which was passed in the form of AB 730, an...
Assembly Bill 730, which would ban ads that have been altered using ‘deepfake technology’ will be decided soon in the statehouse. ‘Deepfake’ technology uses facial scans and new audio to create a fake video using footage from a real video....