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Intelligence Verdict
Testing and safety

Deepfake

Fake but realistic video, audio or images of real people, places or events, made or altered with AI.

The wording it rests on

In their own words.

Our plain version above is ours. This is the official or expert wording we based it on.

“‘deep fake’ means AI-generated or manipulated image, audio or video content that resembles existing persons, objects”
EU AI Act, Article 3(60), 2024

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. Text as reproduced by artificialintelligenceact.eu (Future of Life Institute); the official text is on EUR-Lex.

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