- Channel 4, a British television channel, has sparked controversy with an in-depth video showing another festival broadcast to be broadcast on Friday.
- The video features the Queen talking about the controversial stories of the Royal Family, including Prince Andrew’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the family.
- Channel 4 said it planned to issue the video “strong warning” about deepfake technology and false news.
- Critics, however, say the video makes it seem like deep scratches are more widespread than they actually are.
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British broadcaster Channel 4 has sparked controversy with an in-depth video showing another festival broadcast to be broadcast on Friday.
Queen Elizabeth II releases a video lecture each year to the country at 3pm on Christmas Day, reflecting on the highs and lows of the previous year. The message usually focuses on one topic, and by 2020 it is likely to focus on coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the UK.
The Channel 4 alternative, however, will be a little different.
The five-minute video features a digitally adapted version of The Queen, heard by actor Debra Stephensen, talking about some of the Royal Family’s most controversial moments this year, the introduction of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s departure from royal duties, and the Duke of York’s relationship with a humiliated financier and accused sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein, the Guardian reported.
In a short excerpt from the BBC video showing the fake Queen joking: “There are few things more painful than someone telling you that they prefer Canadian company,” regarding Harry and Meghan’s move and Canada.
The video was strongly intended to give a “strong warning” about deep-sea technology and false news.
Ian Katz, Channel 4’s director of programming, told the Guardian that it is “a powerful reminder that we can no longer trust in our own eyes. “
However, the project has gone back a bit, with experts saying the video suggests that deep-water technology is more common than it actually is.
“We have not yet seen depths widely used, except to attack women,” Sam Gregory, program director of Witness, an organization that uses video and technology to protect human rights, told the Guardian.
“We should be very careful about making people think they can’t believe what they’re seeing. If you haven’t seen them before, this could lead you to believe that deep fares are a wider problem. what they are, “he said.
Deepfake’s technology has become a growing issue, specifically targeting women with incoherent deep-seated pornography.
A cold investigation into a bot service that generates fake nudes has revealed that the deregulation of the internet is not the most urgent threat of “deepfakes” – it is porn revenge.
Deepfake Sensity research firm Deeptrace previously revealed on Tuesday that they had discovered massive activity distributing AI-generated nude images of women and, in some cases, underage girls.
The service worked mainly on the Telegram encrypted messaging app using an AI-powered bot.
Deepfakes expert Henry Ajder told the Curator: “I think in this case the video is not reasonable enough to cause concern, but to submit disclaimers before show in-depth video, or add a watermark to prevent it being cropped and edited, say. help deliver them sensibly.
“As a society, we need to find out what practices for depths we deem appropriate, and how we can navigate in the future where synthetic media is a big part of our lives.
“Channel 4 should encourage best practice.”