Professor Erika Rackley will be discussing deep fakes on What’s Up TV, Sky One’s arts, culture and lifestyle magazine show, on Saturday 7 March.
The show, to be broadcast at 10.30am, features a segment in which presenter Joe Forrester talks to Professor Rackley about the rise of deep fakes – altered videos using Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Rackley was approached by the Show’s producers due to research work she has done to show the importance of criminalising deep fake pornography and other forms of image-based sexual abuse.
Professor Rackley is currently involved in a research project to examine the prevalence, nature and impacts of image-based sexual abuse in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The project is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant and lead by Nicola Henry (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology).
Professor Rackley teaches Tort law to undergraduate law students at Kent Law School and is co-author (together with Dr Kirsty Horsey) of Kidner’s Casebook on Torts (Oxford University Press). She has other research interests in feminist legal history as well as in law, gender and feminism, with a particular focus on judicial diversity and the nature of judging.