Deepfake

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.

Hungary's opposition leader to file criminal complaint over alleged deepfake video

Peter Magyar, leader of the opposition TISZA party, delivers a speech to mark the 69th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, in Budapest, Hungary, October 23, 2025. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo

Japan grapples with deepfake pornography, with laws yet to catch up

According to a survey by a US security firm, 95,820 deepfake videos were found on the internet in 2023, 98 per cent of which were pornography.

India proposes strict rules to label AI content, citing growing risks

India's government said that the potential for misuse of generative AI tools to cause harm has grown significantly.

Online Safety Commission: A watchdog with teeth to protect victims

The Online Safety Commission is aimed at providing swifter redress to victims of online harm.

OpenAI halts depictions of Martin Luther King Jr. after ‘disrespectful’ Sora videos

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