{"id":321619,"date":"2026-02-05T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/321619\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:43:10","slug":"britain-to-work-with-microsoft-to-build-deepfake-detection-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/321619\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain to work with Microsoft to build deepfake detection system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain will work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a>, academics and experts to develop a system to spot deepfake material online, \u200bthe government said on Thursday, as it moves to set \u200cstandards for tackling harmful and deceptive AI-generated content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">While manipulated material has circulated online for decades, \u200cthe rapid adoption of generative AI chatbots &#8211; made possible through the launch of ChatGPT and others &#8211; has amplified concerns about the scale and realism of deepfakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Britain, which recently criminalised the creation of non-consensual intimate images, said it \u2060was working on a \u200cdeepfake detection evaluation framework to set consistent standards for assessing detection tools and technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;Deepfakes are being weaponised by criminals \u200dto defraud the public, exploit women and girls, and undermine trust in what we see and hear,&#8221; technology minister Liz Kendall said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">GOVERNMENTS SPURRED INTO \u200bACTION BY NON-CONSENSUAL IMAGES<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The framework will evaluate how technology can be \u200cused to assess, understand and detect harmful deepfake materials, regardless of its source, the government said, by testing deepfake detection technologies against real-world threats like sexual abuse, fraud and impersonation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">That would help the government and law enforcement obtain better knowledge on where gaps in detection remain, it said, adding that \u2060the framework would be used to set \u200bclear expectations for industries on deepfake detection \u200bstandards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">An estimated 8 million deepfakes were shared in 2025, up from 500,000 in 2023, according to government figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Governments and regulators \u200dworldwide, who are struggling \u2060to keep pace with the rapid evolution of <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI technology;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI technology<\/a>, were spurred into action this year, as Elon Musk&#8217;s Grok chatbot \u2060was found to generate non-consensual sexualised images of people, including children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The British communications watchdog and \u200cprivacy regulator are carrying out parallel investigations into Grok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by \u200cMuvija M; Editing by Joe Bavier)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain will work with Microsoft, academics and experts to develop a system to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,3248,60070,155253,18,19,17,23573,305,82],"class_list":["post-321619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-britain","tag-deepfakes","tag-detection-tools","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liz-kendall","tag-microsoft","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116018086018564556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}