People on the street: Deepfakes

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AI-generated deepfakes have already become impressively realistic, but their impact on our politics and lifestyle could be huge.  We went out into Manchester to ask people if they had changed the way they used social media in order to avoid the threat of deepfakes.

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00:00Hi, I'm Theo and this is People on the Street.

00:02Today I'm out in Manchester asking people about deepfakes.

00:04And since they entered the public sphere, there have been some large-scale misuses of them.

00:08From a fake voice of Keir Starmer apparently telling someone off before the election

00:12to fake photos of Taylor Swift that led to a court case.

00:15We want to know if people are worried, whether they've changed the way they use their image.

00:18It's too late necessarily for me in terms of my images, but it's made me think a lot more

00:23if I had kids I wouldn't post their photos.

00:27I wouldn't post their faces because where it is now versus where it could be.

00:33I'm working on ARK at the minute, Laurie Anderson's ARK.

00:38And that has a kind of segment about how AI can be used to change the narrative in politics

00:46with Donald Trump, etc.

00:48Everyone who's got Facebook and Instagram, it's kind of too late for them.

00:52But I guess for the next generation or the next kids that is,

00:56then it's worth maybe being a bit more cautious of what you put out there.

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