Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
The bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, aimed at criminalizing non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes, cleared a House committee, gaining widespread support for requiring websites to swiftly remove such content and addressing the growing threat of AI-generated exploitation.
As generative AI systems raise novel challenges around data privacy, scope, temporality, and autonomy that undermine traditional consent mechanisms, experts call for new frameworks involving collective governance, technical safeguards, and legal reforms to protect data rights in the AI era.
An AI image generator's unsecured database exposed over 95,000 records, including disturbing prompts and explicit images, some potentially illegal, such as de-aged celebrities made to look like children, leading the company to delete its websites after being contacted.
Raising alarming privacy concerns, DOGE employees have gained unchecked access to sensitive government databases containing personal and financial information, bypassing laws and protocols, according to federal judges who deemed this level of access unjustified and risky for Americans' privacy.
As AI agents gain autonomy across applications, offering convenience, it's crucial to strike a balance by maintaining human oversight and control to mitigate privacy, safety, and security risks and ensure AI serves human interests.
In a privacy-conscious move, Apple will utilize blurred imagery from its Maps Look Around feature, obscuring faces, license plates, and houses upon request, to train AI models for image recognition, creation, and enhancement tasks, starting in March 2025.
A Norwegian man filed a complaint seeking a fine against OpenAI after an older version of ChatGPT falsely claimed he killed his two sons and was jailed for 21 years, prompting OpenAI to update its models to improve accuracy.
The Trump administration unveiled a new AI tool developed internally by the General Services Administration over 18 months, prioritizing security and privacy, with plans to roll it out across federal agencies after initial use within the GSA.
OpenAI faces a GDPR complaint from noyb over ChatGPT's ability to generate defamatory and false information about individuals, violating data accuracy principles, with demands to delete outputs, fine-tune the model, and impose fines.