YouTube opens its doors to deepfakes

Newer AI companies are heavily restricting the use of their tools. Social networks are taking a different approach

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Today, let’s talk about platforms’ early moves to moderate the way people create and distribute media created with generative artificial intelligence. Announcements made by YouTube today about its own synthetic media policies suggest that the leverage in moderating deepfakes may not lie where we expected.

I’ll get to the YouTube announcements in a minute…