impersonation

“As always, we leave those creative decisions to artists themselves while continuing our work to protect them against spam, impersonation, and deception, and providing listeners with greater transparency about the music they hear.”

They added that its AI Studio rules forbid "direct impersonation of public figures".

A spokesperson for the tech giant said while those fake images did not violate its content policies, it investigated them and found they broke its rules around impersonation or trading of pages.

“I didn’t want to attempt to do some impersonation or impression,” Van Patten says.

Mr Norman also revealed the attacker gained access to the system through "sophisticated impersonation".