As part of the IFSH series “Kurz erklärt”, which briefs Members of the Bundestag and their staff on current security issues, Mateusz gave a talk titled “Künstliche Inhalte, echte Gefahr – Deepfakes und ihre Folgen für Sicherheit und Demokratie”.

He explained how deepfakes are used in disinformation, fraud and image-based sexual abuse, and why they are only the most visible part of a wider synthetic-media problem. The briefing comes at a time when the Bundestag is debating new criminal provisions on sexualised deepfakes.