Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
TL;DR
Governor urges people to report videos on X that falsely show the men clashing in the Question Time studio The Bank of England has warned the public against falling for AI-generated scams after deepfake videos of Nigel Farage fighting its governor spread online. Andrew Bailey, the head of the BoE, said AI-generated content related to central banks was spreading and urged people to be “vigilant”. Continue reading...
Nauti's Take
Deepfakes are no longer funny social clips; they are attacks on institutional reality. If you build AI products, provenance, watermarking, and reporting flows need to be treated as infrastructure, not compliance decoration for later.
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