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04.06.2024 - 12:31 / deadline.com
British news networks will be unable to counter dangerous deepfakes and misinformation swiftly on the day of the general election, the CEO of ITN has raised.
According to Rachel Corp, who has been speaking to the government for months about the dangers of AI in news reporting, there is “particular concern” around July 4 because of restrictive reporting rules that only apply to election day.
On that day, UK news networks are obliged to stop reporting the election in the way they have in previous weeks, and “all we can do is show leaders voting and dogs outside polling stations,” said Corp, who oversees the ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 news operations via ITN.
“If something emerges of Rishi Sunak high-fiving Vladimir Putin and it’s spreading then we can’t counter that, so there is a danger there,” Corp told the Deloitte and Enders Media & Telecoms 2024 and Beyond Conference in London. “We would therefore have to talk to regulators but there is not that instant thing of us coming in to counter [deepfakes]. I’m raising that as a flag but I don’t necessarily have a solution.”
Last year, Corp urged lawmakers to consider journalism within the AI regulation debate as the next UK general election drew near, citing issues regarding deepfakes.
One year on, Corp said “generative AI has changed the conversation,” and protecting news networks from deepfakes “shouldn’t just be left to news organizations,” she said.
She was speaking as ITN struck a deal with AI-protection platform Open Origins, which will give an ID to all of ITN’s 1.5 million archived news clips, proving “they are human-made and copyright compliant,” according to Corp.
She said ITN remains open to more licensing deals of this ilk and said the Open Origins
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