Author

Maya Chen

Managing Editor, Verification & Policy

Maya runs verification standards across the newsroom and leads policy and IP coverage tied to synthetic media.

Profile

Beat: Source quality, rights risk, and provenance workflows
Based in: Washington, DC
Background: Oversees evidence standards and edits policy-sensitive stories where legal framing can shift quickly.

Anthropic Cries Theft, the Internet Cries Hypocrisy: Inside the Meme War Over AI Distillation (2/25/2026)
Platforms Tighten Enforcement as Low-Quality AI Video Volumes Rise (2/24/2026)
Native-Audio Video Models Challenge Traditional Dubbing Pipelines (2/24/2026)
Hacker News Keeps Pulling AI Video Builders Into the Same Debate: Utility vs Hype (2/23/2026)
Benchmark Lab: The 10 Weekly Tests That Actually Predict Creator Happiness (2/23/2026)
Policy/IP Watch: What Breaks First When AI Video Goes Mainstream (2/23/2026)
MPA Cease-and-Desist Escalates Seedance 2.0 Legal Pressure (2/20/2026)
Hollywood Backlash Hit Seedance 2.0 Within Days of Launch (2/15/2026)
AI-Generated Anti-ICE Clips Expose a New Misinformation Feedback Loop (1/29/2026)
YouTubers File Class Action Against Snap for Scraping Videos to Train AI Models (1/26/2026)
YouTube CEO Declares AI Slop Detection the Platform's Top Priority for 2026 (1/21/2026)
Global Copyright Fight Over AI Content Reaches Critical Stage Entering 2026 (1/2/2026)
Disney Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI and Licenses 200+ Characters to Sora (12/11/2025)
Motion Picture Association Blasts OpenAI Over Sora 2 Copyright Opt-Out Gaps (12/8/2025)