Journalists in Mexican state of San Luis Potosí jailed, indicted over AI-related charges (opens in new tab)

According to the reporters, Reyes and Hermosillo’s arrests are in connection with a video that circulated widely on Facebook last year in which a local criminal gang in San Luis Potosí accused Gov. Ricardo Gallardo of corruption. Gallardo denounced the video as containing images of him manipulated by AI. The next month, San Luis Potosí amended its state penal code to include, in articles 187 and 187bis, AI-manipulated images as a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. The reporters ...