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China and Germany move to regulate deepfakes and digital humans
China's Cyberspace Administration has published draft rules requiring labelling of AI-generated "digital humans" and banning synthetic intimate relationships with minors, while Germany's Justice Minister has introduced legislation that would jail people for creating deepfakes — not merely distributing them. The two moves, arriving in the same week, represent the most concrete government attempts yet to put legal teeth into AI content regulation. Germany's proposed law would target creators at the point of generation, a threshold no major Western jurisdiction has previously crossed.
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