Chinese people made use of Halloween costumes to allude to criticism of the state, which they are forbidden to present in more direct ways.

Malaysia will require concerts by foreign musicians to have a "kill switch" to shut off the performance instantly if they violate censorship rules.

Scarlett Johansson has sued over use of a transformed image of her, generated by software.

The article calls the software "AI", but I think that is a mistaken way to describe it. I expect it was a "generative" language model, and what they do should not be called "intelligence".

On the substantive issue, I agree with Ms Johansson. The software did not merely analyze the style of that image; it went on to make a modified version of the image itself, which was then published. That is something we would agree is "using her image".

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