Friday, 24 March, 2023

China regulators held talks with Alibaba, Tencent, 9 others on 'deepfake' tech

<p>Chinese authorities summoned Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and eight other local tech firms over concerns of &#39;deepfake&#39; tech on their content platforms. The country&#39;s cyberspace administrator, in a statement, said that the officials of the public security ministry had a meeting with the tech firms to discuss &quot;security assessments&quot; and potential problems with deepfakes and audio social apps. Deepfakes use AI to create hyper-realistic but fake videos or audios.</p>