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The U.K.’s Ministry of Justice has announced that creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images will be made a criminal offense in England and Wales under a new law. Under the legislation, anyone making explicit images of an adult without their consent will face a criminal record and an unlimited fine. If the image is then shared more widely, the creator could then be sent to jail. The new law will mean creating sexually explicit deepfakes will be a criminal offense, even if there is no intention to distribute it. Simply creating such content with the aim of causing alarm, humiliation, or distress to the victim will constitute a crimina...... Read Full article on HadNews

Artificial intelligence (AI) voice startup ElevenLabs has teased the launch of AI sound effects, bringing about generated audio for the first time. Following the release of Sora, an exciting new text-to-video AI tool by OpenAI, London-based ElevenLabs used Sora’s sound limitations to share their news. On Sunday (Feb. 18) the startup took to X to share an insight into their new offering of adding sound effects to AI-generated video. Using content created by OpenAI’s Sora, the unicorn-status company created artificially generated sound effects to match the production: We were blown away by the Sora announcement but felt it needed someth...... Read Full article on HadNews