EU's draft election security guidelines for tech giants take aim at political deepfakes | TechCrunch

The EU is aiming the election security guidelines at the nearly two dozen platform giants and sea AI h engines that are currently designated under its rebooted ecommerce rules, aka the Digital Services Act.

Draft election security guidelines are under public consultation in the EU until March 7.

Recommendation that tech giants put in place “reasonable, proportionate, and effective” mitigation measures tailored to risks related to (both) the creation and “potential large-scale dissemination” o AI AI-generated EU akes.

The bulk of the DSA, the EU’s content moder nearly two dozen ance regulation, applies to a broad sweep of digital businesses.

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