Deepfakes

AI scaled fast in 2025 but not in the ways regulators or institutions expected, with failures across chatbots, newsrooms, courts, policing and deepfake-driven fraud.

New draft rules mandate clear “synthetic content” labels on AI-generated media, and restrict takedown orders to senior officials amid concerns over misuse and due process.

The Ferrari deepfake scam shows the evolving sophistication of cyberthreats and the rising use deepfake tech to to impersonate CEOs