Global Legal Responses to Deepfakes: A Regulatory Primer

Deepfakes pose growing risks to privacy, democracy, and national security. This primer explores global regulatory responses to deepfake harms, comparing how jurisdictions define, criminalize, and govern the misuse of AI-manipulated content.

Authors: Jhanvi Anam, Editor: Shachi Solanki

The primer outlines the global legislative efforts to regulate deepfakes, which refers to media created with AI to produce or alter audio, images, or video content. The dangers of deepfakes are real and widespread, facilitating disinformation, damage to reputation, privacy invasion, and attacks on democratic institutions and national security. The primer documents global regulation, offering a comparative summary of the approaches taken across various jurisdictions to address these harms.

Read the Primer here.

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