Only 20 images of a child are needed to create a deepfake video of them, a leading expert in cybersecurity has warned.
The study, conducted by Perspectus Global, focused on 2,000 parents with children under the age of 16 in the UK, and showed that parents upload an average of 63 images to social media every month.
Over half of these photos include family photos (59%), with one in five parents (21%) uploading these types of images multiple times a week.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne, CEO of Hotline.ie, Mick Moran, said that as AI gets stronger, the 20 images required to create the videos will be reduced to only one.
“The big worry is that these…