Malaysia’s content creators battle AI abuse as deepfakes, scam ads spread online

“We do need to use social media for our business, for our rice bowl,” she said, arguing that AI had intensified old harms rather than created entirely new ones. “What tech does … is that it actually amplifies the problems or the values that we already have.”

Melissa Lim Shi Hui, a lawyer and legal fellow at Sinar Project who is building a public case database of creators whose works, images and likenesses have been misused through AI, said at the event that many creators had become newly vulnerable because they now had little choice but to put themselves online to make a living.

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