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A pioneering bill would give citizens the right to demand that social media platforms remove digital forgeries of themselves.

By Amelia Nierenberg

The government in Denmark wants to protect citizens from deepfake images by giving them more control over their own likenesses, expanding copyright law in a pioneering measure that would allow people to demand that social media platforms take down digital forgeries.

Deepfake technology, which uses A.I. tools to create ultrarealistic images, videos or audio that appear to be actual people, is rapidly improving, leaving the images much harder to spot than ever.