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March 16, 2011 - According to CCTV News, in recent years, AI deep forgery technology has been used to impersonate celebrities, including famous doctors and entrepreneurs. They mislead consumers by changing faces and synthesizing human voices, violating individuals' portrait and voice rights and interests, as well as misleading consumers into buying fake products, affecting their health and disrupting the market order. The report mentioned a video of "AI Academician Zhang Bolei" promoting a brand of skin care products, in which the image and voice of Academician Zhang were used to achieve the effect of faking the real. Academician Zhang Bolei himself said that there are more than a dozen such fake videos involving his image and voice on the Internet...

Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a top Hollywood talent agency, recently announced a partnership with AI technology company Veritone to jointly create a digital celebrity image library. This initiative aims to protect celebrities' image rights and voice copyrights and prevent them from being abused in commercial cooperation. The digital asset library, called CAAvault, allows the storage and licensing of celebrities' voices and images, facilitating commercial cooperation. It is reported that CAA represents various celebrities, including sports stars, TV and film actors, writers, etc. The agency said that…