Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

There is an awful lot of content on social media platforms. Making them responsible for all their content probably would be a step too far. Rather than taking it as a binary choice as to whether they should be publishers, the question I would ask is what responsibility they have in terms of the design of their recommender systems. It is much more the reach of the content that matters. If someone posts a deepfake and only one person sees it, that does not do much harm, but if that deepfake is amplified and shown to everybody, then it does cause harm.

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