Arizona House votes to regulate deepfakes
Arizona legislators are trying to hinder use of deepfake technology by making the creation of fake images for harmful purposes a punishable felony infraction. Two bills advanced by the Arizona House of Representatives would make it illegal to use manufactured video or audio recordings with the intent to defraud, harass or exploit the victims or their friends and families. But enforcing laws against altering images and recordings or creating fake ones will be challenging, say experts such as Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools. He says evolving artificial intelligence technology makes it easier to produce more realistic fake image and voices — and harder to control how they are used.