NBC News interviews AI actress Tilly Norwood on Today
An NBC News correspondent interviewed an AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood and later described glitches and memory lapses.
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When seeing is no longer believing: How AI fakes complicate visual investigations
Journalists and open-source experts say AI manipulation, shrinking access to footage and rising costs are making visual verification harder.
Reuters reviews hundreds of images a day. How does it verify them?
Reuters details how its visual verification team confirms user-shot photos and video, publishing roughly a dozen of hundreds reviewed each day.
Google’s Backstory aims to speed up image verification for fact-checkers
The experimental DeepMind tool combines provenance checks, reverse image searches and context tracing. India Today uses it as a first pass, then verifies the results manually.
EU makes AI labels mandatory on authentic-looking images, audio and text
Starting August 2, companies must mark synthetic content designed to look real with visible AI labels and digital watermarks or face fines.
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QVC hosts vote to unionize with SAG-AFTRA over generative AI concerns
QVC and HSN hosts voted 37-9 to join SAG-AFTRA, citing fears about unauthorized AI use of their likenesses.
EU publishes voluntary code on AI content transparency
The European Commission has published a voluntary Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.
AI-generated Venezuela videos reveal a darker truth about disinformation
The problem isn't that people were fooled. It's that they didn't care.
Journalists scramble as AI-generated images beat official photos to publication
Fact-checkers and journalists are losing ground to synthetic images during breaking news events.
Grok’s deepfake crisis shows why 2026 is the year of ‘breaking verification’
As Musk's AI generates fake explicit images on demand, newsrooms face a new imperative: proving what's real.