The unauthorised publication of ‘deepfakes’ is now a criminal offence, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday.
A deepfake is synthetic media – images, video, or audio – created using advanced artificial intelligence to realistically replace one person’s likeness or voice with another’s.
The bill criminalising deepfakes – via an amendment to the basic Copyright Law – had been tabled by Akel MP Christos Christofides.
It aims to prohibit
