Speaking to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence, An Coimisiún Toghcháin chief executive, Art O’Leary, described the AI deepfake “challenge” as “vivid” and said that the recent Catherine Connolly deepfake clip, first reported by the Irish Independent, “showed how easily such content can be produced and how often we may see similar attempts”.

The Oireachtas Committee was also told by UK expert Dr Dan McQuillan that AI is “toxic to democracy” and is being used to strengthen far right political “reactionaries”, as well as seducing students into replacing “critical thinking” with “slop”.

“What do we talk about when we talk about Al? We’re talking about chatbots and deepfakes, synthetic text, voices and images, about extraordinary efficiencies and equally extraordinary vu

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