Peter Brown, principal with Peter Brown & Associates. Photo: Rick Kopstein/ALMCalifornia’s New Deepfake Laws: Banning the Deception
The author writes "Simply put, deepfakes are synthetic media, including videos, images, or audios, which have been convincingly generated using artificial intelligence to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that never occurred."
January 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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“In the era of deep fakes, seeing is no longer believing.”
Fareed Zakaria, Journalist and Political Commentator
Last year a finance worker at a Hong Kong multinational firm was tricked into transferring $25 million to fraudsters after conducting a video conference with whom he thought was the firm’s CFO and several other senior officers. None of the participants in the video conference were real. “(In the) multi-person video conference, it turns out that everyone [he saw] was fake,” reported Senior Police Superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching.
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