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Firms face large fines if they do not comply.\n“Generative AI enables disinformation to be created at unprecedented scale, tailored to specific audiences, and disseminated with remarkable speed,” an EU official said.\nSince AI is “making it increasingly difficult for all of us to distinguish what is real from what is synthetic,” the EU’s rules seek to “preserve citizens’ ability to trust what they see, hear, and read,” the official said.\nOf particular concern for the EU are deepfakes — text, images, videos and sounds that appear to be real, but are generated or manipulated by AI.\nThe rules affect content made for professional reasons, and the EU insists individuals using AI in a purely personal capacity will not be affected.\nText that aims to inform the public on general interest issues will also have to be labeled if they are created using AI without human editorial oversight.\nExisting AI systems have until Dec. 2 to adapt to the new rules, and there are exemptions for “artistic, creative, satirical, fictional” work.\nThe EU has come under fire for placing more demands on businesses, and rules that will ultimately force all content to be labeled given the rapidly growing widespread use of AI across Europe.\n“We have heard that it is going to be very, very difficult to implement, but I think we often hear this with compliance requirements. And yet, the world turns and we figure these things out,” Ashley Casovan of International Association of Privacy Professionals told Agence France Presse.\nThe world’s tech giants have already begun slapping their own labels in anticipation of the rules.\nFor example, TikTok has required content creators to label AI-generated images, audio and video for several years, and says more than 3 billion content items already have labels thanks to tools and detection technology.\nLikewise, Meta has deployed an “AI Info” label on Instagram and Facebook for posts using the technology.\nGoogle has signed the EU code of conduct on AI transparency, and says it is working with others like Nvidia, OpenAI and Apple on digital tagging tools.\nHowever, Google’s Karen Massin warns of “regulatory complexity” that could prove counterproductive, and “risks confusing the people these rules are meant to help.”\n“If online content is flooded with overlapping AI labels and legal disclosures, it becomes harder for people to get the clear context they need,” Massin added.\nSeveral major food brands in Australia are selling tomato products grown in China as domestically produced, with forensic testing showing some are sourced from the Xinjiang region, an investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) said. Supermarket chains Coles Group Ltd and budget competitor Aldi — along with widely sold brand Leggo’s — were found to be selling tomato products that independent scientific testing found had originated in China, it said. The products were labeled as being sourced from Australia or Italy, it said. The testing was commissioned by the ABC’s Four Corners and conducted by forensic laboratory Source Certain, which the broadcaster\nIGNORING REPORTERS: The Russian envoy had little to say other than ‘nice hairstyle’ after the meeting, in which Rubio said he planned to address the conflict in Ukraine US Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday met with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov in the Philippines for talks at which he was expected to renew the prospect of the US brokering an end to the war in Ukraine. The US Department of State offered few details about the meeting on the sidelines of an annual gathering of ASEAN foreign ministers in Manila. “They discussed the US-Russia relationship and the need to end the Russia-Ukraine war,” a state department spokesperson said in a statement. Russia did not immediately offer a readout and Lavrov largely ignored questions by reporters after he left\n‘I’LL TAKE YOU DOWN’: Observers said there have been tensions between Ibrahim Traore and Oumarou Yabre, while the third-in-command has not been seen recently Ibrahim Traore, the head of Burkina Faso’s military junta, last week sought to stamp out speculation of a power struggle at the highest levels of government, warning that he intended to remain the west African country’s only leader. 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