Author: Gordon Finlayson

Rain News is reporting that the US Senate is stepping up to the challenge of AI driven deepfakes with the “No Fakes Act” to protect biometric information such as voice and visual likeness from use in AI. Brad Hill reports that the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (“No Fakes Act”) will prevent musicians and performers from unauthorized...

One of the biggest challenges of the AI age will be the use of AI generated images and video to promote disinformation, harassment, stealth advertising or fraud and social media platforms will almost certainly be focus for the distribution of such malign AI generated content. The announcement today that TikTok has joined the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and the Coalition...

In 1988 Samsung ran a series of satirical advertisements in newspapers and magazines to promote the sale of video cassette recorders (VCRs). The ads predicting the future of broadcast media with a series of ridiculous ideas, like a trashy TV host becoming a candidate for US President or red meat being seen as health food.  One of the ads included...

In December 2023, the European Parliament passed the World’s first comprehensive AI law, a regulatory regime that has the potential to shape the development and implementation of AI systems in coming decades, both in the EU and across the globe. The EU says that the regulations are designed to ensure more accountability and transparency for AI applications deployed in the...

The recent advent of compelling new AI driven image generation services, including OpenAI’s Dal-EE and MidJourney is signalling a profound transformation in the creative economy. Over recent years, AI image generators have developed from interesting curiosities to the point that they can now mimic highly specialised human artistry, producing images that rival the technical quality of human illustrators or artists...

Over the past year, a significant number of US states have passed new laws regulating the collection, use and monetisation of biometric identity. Known as Biometric Information Privacy Acts (BIPA) these acts set up a framework for companies to work in when they are collecting and using biometric data including facial and iris scans, fingerprints or voiceprints. The most prominent...

The Law Commission of England and Wales has released new recommendations on the expansion of laws regarding intimate image abuse, which would include the criminalisation of the distribution of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfake videos or images. The law expands the scope of current criminal laws which already cover the sharing of non-consensual taking and sharing of intimate images (including revenge...

The New York Times has reported that Clearview AI has reached a legal agreement to limit the availability of its AI facial recognition technology, that was built on a foundation of wide-scale data scraping and unauthorised use of personal information (PI). Clearview scraped publicly available images of individuals from social media sites to populate its AI, without obtaining consents from...

Former Reality TV Host and US President, Donald Trump has talked a lot about launching his own social media platform since being kicked off Twitter in the wake of his failed insurrection. Now, according to Donald Trump Jnr. the first post has gone up on their new social platform – and boy does it look a lot like Twitter. The...

Over the past two decades the extraordinary growth of Internet giants like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Alibaba, AirBnB, EBay and YouTube has been accompanied by the evolution of a complex network private legal systems designed to regulate the behaviour of users, vendors and customers, systems of Virtual Law that act in parallel with or occasionally at odds with national regulation. Virtual...