With deepfake attacks occurring every five minutes in the UK, how concerned are you about the safety of your personal data or even your image being misused? What do you think can be done to protect people online?
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00:00Deepfake. So with deepfake attacks occurring every five minutes in the UK,
00:05are you concerned about the safety of your personal data or have you kind of ever had an image misused?
00:11Not as far as I know. Yeah, I've, again, I've kind of, I have private profiles on social media.
00:21So that's something I am conscious of.
00:24I think when I was younger, I sort of was quite happy for the world to see it.
00:28But, you know, the landscape's changed a lot. So it is a concern.
00:32And, you know, especially from a sort of safeguarding children point of view and younger people on social media
00:38and that sort of thing, I think that's probably the biggest issue with it.
00:42In August of this year, research came out in the city that said around 17 percent of people
00:49were confident that they could easily identify a deepfake video.
00:53Universities such as the University of Bristol has recognised the importance of understanding AI tech.