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Philippa Webb

Philippa Webb

Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and Co-founder & Director of the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice (OITJ)

Aug 3, 2026

16:18
So the other side is how
16:21
easy it is to create a deepfake.
16:23
And we just taught actually an option course here at the Blavatnik School called the Tech and Justice Lab, where we asked a number of the commercial chatbots to create certain deepfakes.
16:37
At first, they would resist saying, I'm not allowed to do that, or I can only do that if it's an authenticated image.
16:45
But within two prompts, we were able to jailbreak it and create deepfakes.
16:52
Now, those deepfakes might have a watermark in the corner that could be removed through a screenshot and cropping.
16:58
This is not rocket science, right? So it was just making real for our students and also for ourselves how easy it is to create these deep fakes.

9 MINS LATER

26:18
I'd love to hear what you're doing on the ground there to try and facilitate access to legal recourse for victims of domestic and sexual abuse.

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