Deepfakes and impersonation

Overseas 'content farms' are using AI to create fake social media posts about UK politics, according to an expert warning from Prof Martin Innes of Cardiff University. A BBC Wales investigation found several Vietnam-based Facebook pages spreading fake news and AI-generated images of politicians, and Meta removed some of them. The Electoral Commission is developing software to spot deepfakes ahead of the Welsh and Scottish parliament elections in May.

An opinion piece by Ricardo Amper, CEO of Incode, argues that deepfakes and injection attacks now target identity verification in onboarding, account recovery, remote hiring and privileged access workflows. It states that a successful bypass gives attackers account takeover, fraudulent accounts and durable access to internal systems. The source introduces Incode Deepsight as a full-session validation approach and begins citing a Purdue University benchmark on detector generalization, but the excerpt ends before the findings.