Name: Unauthorised Deepfakes and Digital Replicas: Time for Reform?
Start: 2026-03-24T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-24T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Gresham College

Unauthorised Deepfakes and Digital Replicas: Time for Reform?

Lecture explores harms from unauthorised deepfakes and argues for UK personality rights plus wider measures to curb inequality and abuse.
About this Event

Three categories of harms have materialised from unauthorised deepfakes; disinformation, demeaning content and displacing creative workers. As this technology continues to develop, without any safeguards in place, it will exacerbate the inequalities of society. This lecture discusses the regulation of unauthorised deepfakes and explores the introduction of personality rights into laws across the UK as part of a wider solution including educational, cultural and technological intervention.

A lecture by Dr Hayleigh Bosher

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