A minister is about to give an interview on Newsnight, when the live studio feed is suddenly hacked and he is replaced by an identical replica, voicing the words of a hostile power.
This is the latest storyline in the BBC ’s digital surveillance thriller The Capture, starring Holliday Grainger, Paapa Esseidu and Peter Singh.
But while it may be a TV drama, experts warn the scenes are based on what is possible in real life – and the use of AI-generated video clones, or “deepfakes”, is a genuine and increasing threat to all of us.
