Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act. Any ad, whether image, video, audio or text, that has been significantly altered or generated by AI must now carry a label in the same format.
Australian international Cristian Volpato has licensed an AI-generated clone of himself, joining other athletes trying to control and profit from their digital identities. A social media video shows him spawning digital copies of himself in settings around the world.
This summer, local festival committees and small shops in France turned to image generators for flea-market flyers and menus with a recognisable look. Some town halls are now pushing back through their notice boards and the funding they give associations, though not always setting an example themselves.
The AI boom is setting local residents against corporations building energy-hungry data centers. In Newport, South Wales, people living beside a towering new facility are fighting back.
Brave, which markets itself as a private browser, has also been selling access to its search index to AI assistants. The business sits in a legal grey zone and raises questions about how far its privacy promises hold once queries pass through a third-party chatbot.
Music streaming platforms already tag tracks generated by AI, but books and films remain far from real transparency on the subject. Photography has seen a few initiatives.