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5 developments involving IMDA in 1 country or body. The most recent is Singapore bans realistic deepfakes of election candidates during campaigns, 15 Oct 2024.
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- Singapore bans realistic deepfakes of election candidates during campaigns
Platforms operating in Singapore must remove election deepfakes on the Returning Officer’s direction, and voters and campaigns sharing them face criminal liability.
- Singapore finalises its Model AI Governance Framework for generative AI
Developers and deployers of generative AI in Singapore got the government’s reference list of practices that regulators and buyers there use to judge them.
- Singapore Budget 2024 sets aside over S$1 billion for AI over five years
Singapore put money behind its AI strategy, with up to S$500 million for compute that local researchers and companies can draw on and funded training for AI practitioners.
- Singapore funds S$70m programme to scale the SEA-LION regional language model
Builders serving Southeast Asian users got a state-funded open model trained on regional languages, with funding to scale it and add speech.
- Singapore opens its AI Verify testing toolkit to an industry foundation
Companies selling AI in Singapore got a free, government-backed way to test their systems and produce reports for customers and regulators, with major US vendors helping write the tests.