A local legal expert is urging victims of AI Deepfakes not to suffer in silence. Karen Costello is a Law Lecturer at the Technological University of Shannon with a specialty on digital legislation. A 'Deep Fake' is where AI tools use existing images or videos and significantly alter them to portray a fabricated scene.
In many incidents this technology has created realistic images or movies of people in a range of compromising activities such as sexual acts or illegal behaviour. Speaking to Shannonside FM News, Karen says Irish legislation has not caught up with the advances in AI technology. However, offences involving deep fakes can be prosecuted under a range of Irish laws according to the legal expert:
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