A Stimson Center policy memo catalogues the expanding scale of AI-generated synthetic media, citing European Parliamentary Research Service estimates of deepfake video volume growing from ~500,000 in 2023 to ~8 million by 2025, and documents the uneven regulatory responses across the US, EU, China, and South Korea. The memo highlights that platform self-regulation has been reactive and shaped by market incentives, while national laws address narrow harms rather than a unified framework; the EU AI Act and South Korea's AI Basic Act (in force January 2026) represent the most comprehensive disclosure mandates to date. For financial institutions, the fragmented and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape around synthetic media creates compliance uncertainty for any AI-enabled content or customer-facing product deployed across multiple jurisdictions.
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