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The Philippines just got Meta to promise faster deepfake takedowns and child-abuse evidence access. Sounds great, until you ask what "faster" actually means onc
Bank Negara Malaysia had to publicly deny its own governor was in a viral fight video, proof that even trusted financial faces can be faked, and no one's coming
The Philippines got Meta to promise faster deepfake removals and child-abuse data access, but a promise to act quickly isn't the same as stopping the fake befor
Audio deepfakes just became the #1 AI impersonation scam, and all it takes is three seconds of your voice to clone it. Here's what to actually do about it.
Maria Shriver says AI deepfake ads are using her face and name to sell Alzheimer's supplements she never endorsed, a scam that's already cost victims hundreds o
Survivors of childhood sexual abuse are suing over claims that their images helped train Grok's deepfake features, a case that exposes exactly why deepfake legi
A fake photo of a teacher or coach can spread before anyone checks if it's real. Here's what the new federal deepfake law does, and doesn't, fix.
A Reno truck driver spent 11 hours in jail after facial recognition said he was "100% match" to a banned gambler. Now he wants the names of 167 other people fla
One man's deepfake romance scam shows the scary new math of online dating fraud, it doesn't take a thousand fake profiles anymore, just one that looks real enou
One ordinary school photo is now enough raw material for an AI app to create a fake, explicit image of a teenager, and most schools have no plan for when it hap
A retired psychologist lost $180,000 to a deepfake romance scam. It's not a story about being gullible, it's a story about how AI-manufactured trust builds slow
Fake videos of Elon Musk and Johann Rupert convinced South Africans to hand over R1 billion. The scariest part? The tech behind it is now cheap, fast, and every
