MONTHLY ARCHIVE

April 2025 — AI Governance Events

In April 2025, the Synthetic Outlaw Observatory documented 2 AI governance events — automated systems producing prohibited outcomes while formal accountability failed to attach.

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FTC Takes Action Against AI Data Scraping

DEVELOPING · 2025-04-22 · Washington DC, USA · Consumer Technology · signal 8/10

The FTC issued a series of civil investigative demands to major AI companies regarding their data collection practices, focusing on scraping of personal data without consent for AI training pipelines.

US Senate Passes Deepfake Accountability Act

DEVELOPING · 2025-04-10 · Washington DC, USA · Media & Information · signal 8/10

The US Senate passed the Deepfake Accountability Act requiring disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertising and criminalizing malicious deepfake distribution.

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