Fake Reality, Real Danger: Deepfake in the AI ​​Act Cover Image

Hamis valóság, valós veszély: deepfake az AI Act-ben
Fake Reality, Real Danger: Deepfake in the AI ​​Act

Author(s): Áron Badinszky
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Administrative Law
Published by: UNIVERSITAS - Győr Nonprofit Kft.
Keywords: artificial intelligence; AI Act, deepfake; AI regulation

Summary/Abstract: Among the myriad manifestations of artificial intelligence today, deepfake technology probably has the greatest potential to spectacularly transform our world in a short time. Deepfake is a gift in the right hands: it can make drug research more effective, bring passed actors back to life, however it can be a weapon of disinformation, sexual abuse and added many new elements to the cybercrime toolbox. Despite the growing public concerns, the recently adopted European AI regulation, the AI Act, considers deepfakes to be less risky than, for example, university fraud filtering systems, as even the latter are subject to much stricter requirements. In my analysis below, I will provide a detailed overview of the risks posed by deepfake, give a sense of their severity, and then, by analyzing the pros and cons of European regulation and contextualizing it with international examples, seek to answer the question: why the European Union has not developed a more stringent regime that truly reflects the level of risks posed by deepfake.

  • Issue Year: 4/2024
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 18-38
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Hungarian
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