Author: Gordon Finlayson

Battle of the Beige – Influencer Legal Action Tests Copyright Law

The Verge has posted a fascinating deep dive into a legal battle in the Amazon influencer space, centred around influencers Sydney Nicole Gifford and Alyssa Sheil. In a world where social media influencers shape trends and sell products with the power of a single post, a new lawsuit has brought the intersection of copyright law and influencer marketing into sharp...

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US Senate Proposes AI Deepfake Regulation

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...

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TikTok Gets Onboard With Content Authenticity Initiative

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...

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What Can Wheel of Fortune Tell Us About the Future of AI?

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...

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The EU AI Act – A Play to Transform Global AI Regulation

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...

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Midjourney – Testing the Boundaries of Art, AI and the Law

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...

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Scanning the New Wave of Biometric Privacy Laws

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...

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UK Criminal Reforms Target Explicit Deepfakes

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...

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Clearview AI Reaches Settlement to Limit Distribution of Facial Recognition Software

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...

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