Massachusetts is one of just five states that does not criminalize the creation or possession of AI-generated or ...

The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was shaken by revelations in December 2023 that two local teenage boys shared hundreds of nude images of girls in their community over a private chat on the social ...

Twitter’s proposed policy would result in the prolific spread of fabricated, but highly realistic images and videos. This could allow widespread misinformation on the platform. The first time computer ...

The dangers of hyper-realistic computer-generated images shot to the public forefront last January, when sexually explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift went viral, spurring calls for congressional ...

Maine lawmakers are restarting an effort to ban the creation and distribution of AI-generated child sexual abuse material ahead of the next legislative session in January. Lawmakers weighed a ban last ...

A child psychiatrist who altered a first-day-of-school photo he saw on Facebook to make a group of girls appear nude. A U.S. Army soldier accused of creating images depicting children he knew being ...

One of the phenomena triggered by the AI boom in recent years is deepfakes. The term is made up of the words deep learning and fake. Deep learning refers to machine learning methods, while a fake is a ...

I'm more of a scroller than a poster on social media. Like many people, I wind down at the end of the day with a scroll binge, taking in videos of Italian grandmothers making pasta or baby pygmy ...

The technology holds huge potential for use in visual effects, but there are also risks for the industry. Twitter’s proposed policy would result in the prolific spread of fabricated, but highly ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Arryn Robbins, University of Richmond (THE CONVERSATION) I’m more of a scroller than a ...

With the rapid advances in artificial intelligence, computer-generated images — including hyperrealistic faces — are becoming ...