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Tirion Havard, Associate Professor of Social Work, London South Bank University

Even before deepfakes, tech was a tool of abuse and control

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Of the many “profound risks to society and humanity” that have tech experts worried about artificial intelligence (AI), the spread of fake images is one that everyday internet users will be familiar with.

Deepfakes – videos or photographs where someone’s face or body has been digitally altered so that they appear to be doing something they are not – have already been used to spread political disinformation and fake pornography.

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