Mateusz Łabuz co-authored the policy report titled “Non-Consensual Sexualising Deepfakes – Threats and Recommendations for Legal and Societal Action”. The report was published by the CEE Digital Democracy Watch. Together with Maria Pawelec from the University of Tubingen, Mateusz describes how synthetic media have become a tool for producing non-consensual, intimate content, which primarily leads…

Together with Prof. Mikołaj Małecki and Dr. Katarzyna Mika-Łabuz, Mateusz Łabuz co-authored peer-reviewed article titled “Child pornography in the form of deep fakes – potential problems under criminal law and proposals for changes” (Polish version available online). The article was published in the journal “Prawo w Działaniu”. This is the first comprehensive, comprehensive study of…

Matthias published an OpEd with golem.de, a leading IT website in Germany. The Op-Ed warns that the United States is experiencing a tech-enabled authoritarian shift, where the undermining of liberal democracy is happening openly and systematically, not secretly. Influential tech leaders like Elon Musk and other “tech-bro” billionaires, alongside former President Trump, are seizing control…

Mateusz Łabuz and Matthias Schulze co-authored OpEd titled “KI-Hintertür in die Demokratie” (German version available online). The OpEd was published by Tagesspiegel Cybersecurity Background. They pointed out that large language models reproduce Russian disinformation themes in 33 percent of the cases observed by researchers. For that reason, Russian disinformation actors are increasingly trying to influence…

Mateusz Łabuz co-authored a policy paper entitled “Deep Fakes and Sexual Abuse – Law Facing the Challenges of Synthetic Media” (PL version available) published by the CEE Digital Democracy Watch. Together with prof. Mikołaj Małecki and dr Karolina Mania, Mateusz described how cyber-related crimes of creating and sharing non-consensual synthetic pornographic content as well as…

In an OpEd for “Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung”, Mateusz Łabuz describes memetic warfare, looking at new forms of conducting cognitive activities aimed at controlling the narrative, and consequently also influencing the perception of reality by recipients. Mateusz draws attention to the relatively low social awareness, which makes societies and democratic systems more sensitive to sophisticated manipulation.…

Mateusz Łabuz co-authored a policy report entitled “The Pervasive Influence of AI on Global Political Campaigns 2024”. The report was published by the Future Shift Labs and presented during IPE Campaign Expo 2025 in Cape Town, and during Political Tech Summit in Berlin. The study critically evaluates how AI was used for political campaigning in 2024, analyzing most…

Mateusz Łabuz published a peer-reviewed article entitled A Teleological Interpretation of the Definition of DeepFakes in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act – A Purpose-Based Approach to Potential Problems With the Word “Existing”. The article offers a detailed analysis of the definition of deepfakes in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. It focuses on the purposes behind…