'Hidden' environmental impact of deepfake videos
You can barely scroll through social media at the moment without seeing deepfake videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Platforms, such as Open AI's Sora, have gone viral due to their ability to make hyper-realistic videos, leading to people sharing faked scenes of deceased celebrities and historical figures in bizarre and often offensive scenarios.
The videos have even forced the families of deceased figures, including that of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, to appeal to AI firms to ban their loved-ones from featuring.
But behind the emotional impact of the deepfakes, a lecturer at the University of Oxford is now warning about thei