U.S. President Biden issued an AI executive order aimed at addressing challenges in the tech sector, one of which is how to distinguish the authenticity of images. The order calls for the development of digital watermark standards to help users identify genuine images and their owners. Experts indicate that digital watermarking is not the only solution to the misinformation problem and that there are risks of it being bypassed.

In just two months, developers used OpenAI tools to build an AI propaganda machine aimed at demonstrating the dangers of mass production of misinformation by AI. The developers did not deploy the model out of ethical concerns.