Parliamentary inquiry told police forced to ‘cobble together’ laws to prosecute
man who allegedly spread deepfake images of women
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A one-stop portal for victims to report AI deepfakes to police should be
established, the federal police union has said, lamenting that police were
forced to “cobble together” laws to charge the first person to face prosecution
for spreading deepfake images of womenlast year.
The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, introduced legislation in parliament in June
that will create a new criminal offence of sharing, without consent, sexually
explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence
or other forms of technology.
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Company says it has ‘never thought about news’ as a way to counter misleading
content on Facebook and Instagram despite evidence to the contrary
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Meta has claimed news is not the antidote to misinformation and disinformation
spreading on Facebook and Instagram, as the company continues to push back
against being forced to pay media companies for news in Australia.
Meta announced in March it would not enter into new agreements with media
companies to pay for news following the end of contracts signed in 2021 under
the Morrison government’s news media bargaining code.
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