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AI impersonation exposes gaps in South African law | SA News

Artificial intelligence is reshaping social media at a pace that South African law was never designed to match. Deepfake videos, voice cloning, and AI-generated impersonations are no longer hypothetical threats – they are already causing real harm locally.

A deepfake is AI-generated or manipulated media designed to make it appear as though a person said or did something they never did. The dangers are threefold: deepfakes deceive audiences into believing false content, they enable cybercrimes and reputational harm, and they can be created and published by anyone, including anonymous social media users.

South Africa has already experienced this first-hand. In 2024, broadcast journalist…

Fact-Checking Initiatives: Several organizations focus on fact-checking to combat
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