Adrian Weckler

I don't know if it's true, but God, it's worrying, isn't it?

That sort of stuff.

So, you know, I completely agree with.

I mean, you're talking about kids, though.

I won't have anyone convince me that they can defend in that space.

Hello and you're welcome to The Big Tech Show with me, Adrian Weckler.

Now, as the EU's AI Act rumbles through its process here in Ireland and in Europe, one of the issues, one of the many issues that it's trying to tackle is deepfake pornography.

And we're going to talk a little bit about this and then the wider impact of the AI Act itself.

I'm joined by Aoife White, who writes for the European Correspondent and who specializes in EU affairs.

Aoife, let's start with the deepfake porn issue.

You might just remind us what that is.

Yeah, one of the things that has struck me about this is very occasionally, maybe I looked at the wrong type of content or something on my social media feed, but I have very occasionally seen an ad pushed at me.

And it will be for something like that.

It will be, you know, is there someone you know that you would like to see in a different situation?

Maybe it's a neighbour, maybe it's a colleague.

And it's clearly, that's what it's clearly aiming at.

It's clearly trying to get me to create a deepfake nude or deepfake porn.

And so I guess that would become... So this would be more about tackling the source of that rather than the effect of that.

Yeah, and I think that was the argument before.

Wasn't it around the time of the Grok controversy?