Good news: laws to tackle AI deepfakes are coming. Bad news: they are based on copyright (opens in new tab)

<p>A key theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is that copyright, born in an analogue age of scarcity, works poorly in today’s digital world of abundance. One manifestation of that is how lawmakers struggle to adapt the existing copyright rules to deal with novel technological developments, like the new generation of …</p>