What started with a spoof of a campaign ad has led to a critical question: Do new California laws meant to crack down on election-related deepfakes also ban memes and satire? Measures signed into ...

At the moment, no federal or California statute specifically blocks deepfakes in ads. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last month that would have prohibited deceptive, digitally altered ...

Exposure to a variety of deepfakes was fairly uniform across the country, the survey said, with political deepfakes being the ...

The latest chapter in this long-running saga involves California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s crackdown on election deepfakes. X owner Elon Musk reposted an obvious parody campaign video on his platform ...

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President-elect Trump’s return to the White House has those in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry preparing for ...

Robert Downey Jr has vowed to pursue anyone who tries to hijack his persona for AI, whether he is dead or alive.

You’re at your polling place. You're excited to take part in the democratic process. You want to document the moment and ...

While foreign actors spread misinformation about the U.S. election via deepfakes, legal experts aren't holding their breath ...

Artificial intelligence was predicted to disrupt the 2024 election. It ended up shaking people’s faith in truth rather than influencing their vote.

Donald Trump significantly outperformed his 2020 and 2016 presidential election performances in the state of California on Tuesday, while progressives were unseated as mayor of San Francisco and ...

Following real-time election results for all 52 United States House of Representatives districts in California. These results ...