AI experts say deepfakes now at 'industrial' scale

Tools to create tailored, even personalised scams are no longer niche and are inexpensive, experts say. File picture: AP/Michael Dwyer

Deepfake fraud has gone “industrial”, an analysis published by AI experts has said.

Tools to create tailored, even personalised, scams — leveraging, for example, deepfake videos of Swedish journalists or the president of Cyprus — are no longer niche, but inexpensive and easy to deploy at scale, said the analysis from the AI Incident Database.