Policy

In March, the EU adopted the text of a new regulation on political ads, designed to promote transparency and close off the period since 2016 where there’s been significant public and media concern about their misuse. The “final” regulation wasn’t very final, serving more as a framework than a specific set of requirements, with much…

Dire predictions about deepfakes damaging elections in 2024 turned out to be a long way off the mark. The predictions mostly came from two camps. The first was politics people who don’t really understand technology. The second was technology people, particularly AI people, who don’t understand political campaigns. The reality was, for problematic generative AI…