Deepfake

Singapore users are flocking to Elon Musk’s Grok despite deepfake controversy

A billboard passes through Westminster urging the Prime Minister to stand up to Elon Musk and ban X and Grok in London, Britain on Jan 14, 2026.

Sapporo man held on suspicion of creating sexual deepfakes of female celebrities

The Metropolitan Police Department in Japan suspect the 31-year-old man made sexual deepfakes of female celebrities available on two membership-based sites.

Musk’s Grok AI faces scrutiny from Japan over sexualised images

Japan has joined a list of countries probing X over AI service Grok and the chatbot's role in creating without consent sexualised images of people.

X announces measures to prevent Grok from undressing images

Grok's so-called “Spicy Mode” feature allowed users to create sexualised deepfakes of women and children using simple text prompts such as “put her in a bikini” or “remove her clothes”.

Spain moves to curb AI deepfakes, tighten consent rules on images

The EU is stepping up efforts to regulate deepfakes.

UK to accelerate law criminalising creation of sexual deepfakes

The law would make it illegal for companies to supply tools designed to create such images.

AI images of ousted Venezuelan leader Maduro spread rapidly despite safeguards

Venezuela’s ousted president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are escorted off a helicopter en route to the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Jan 5.

Free tool countering deepfake content to launch in Singapore in 2026

CATOS group photo taken on Nov 17, 2025 from left :

Ms Therese Quieta
Head of System Engineering, CATOS,
Principal Research Engineer, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC) ;

Dr Yang Yinping
Centre Director, CATOS
Senior Principal Scientist, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC) ;

Dr Soumik Mondal
Principal Scientist, CATOS & A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I2R) ;

Dr Wang Yunlong
Senior Scientist, CATOS & A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC) .

Teens make up half of South Korea’s cybersex crime suspects

Cheap AI tools fuel teen-driven rise in deepfake sex crimes in South Korea

Among suspects linked to such crimes, nearly 62 per cent were teenagers.

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