YouTube is making its AI likeness detection tool available to creators aged 18 and older to combat deepfake misuse.

Taylor Swift’s team filed trademark applications aimed at protecting her voice and image amid AI deepfake concerns.

Sophisticated AI-generated deepfakes are proliferating across the 2026 US midterm election cycle, creating unprecedented challenges for voters, campaigns, and platforms trying to distinguish authentic political content from synthetic media.

Missouri has passed legislation making it a criminal offence to create or distribute AI-generated sexual deepfake images without consent, a move partly prompted by the viral spread of non-consensual explicit AI images of Taylor Swift that circulated online in early 2024.

AI-manipulated images of Minneapolis shootings go viral with 9 million views, as Senator displays fake photo in Senate, raising concerns about digital authenticity.