Research WODC Deepfakes: are our legal frameworks adequate?
It will not have escaped anyone's notice that the application of AI has advanced by leaps and bounds. Among other things, advances in technology mean that today it is possible to use so-called "deepfakes. These are imitations of people that, through advanced technology, are barely distinguishable from the real thing. The application of this technology can be unleashed for countless purposes. Both for entertainment and medical research, but also for more evil purposes. The videos of ex-President Donald Trump making strange statements may still be humorous, but the atmosphere can quickly become grim. Deepfakes enable endless types of fraud and deception, not to mention more sinister purposes. The WODC is researching and proposing regulatory options.The question that the WODC is examining is whether current laws - specifically the Dutch AVG, civil procedural law and criminal procedural law - are still sufficient to (Machine translated)
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