Bank transfers over £800 to be frozen for 24 hrs?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

If you’ve seen the viral videos being spread on social media that say Kier Starmer is bringing in new banking rules so that bank transfers over £800 will be frozen for 24 hours from 1 October to allow for advanced AI checks, reporting to HMRC and preventing scams, this is not true. I don’t know who is responsible for making up and spreading this 🐂 💩, but the world would be a much better place if that kind of person didn’t exist.

[fleabag]

Fake this fake that is eveywhere.  Its now the sport of choice for w*nkers with too much time on their grubby digits

[Cato]

Only going to get worse with AI.

 

Even in it's current imperfect state there are people creating fake images of real events and tragedies purely to farm engagement on social media.

 

If the tech keeps inproving at it's current rate it won't be long before anyone with access to a smartphone can instruct AI to create entirely convincing video imagery of anything they want and claim that it's a real event.

[chris_b]

If AI can make me a famous and talented bass player I'll buy one.

[wateroftyne]

People will believe what they want to believe.