By now everyone is aware of the potential threat that comes from Artificial Intelligence, with it receiving a lot of media scrutiny of late.

But most of the coverage is of impending doom, with the risk that comes from in the not so distant future.

The thing is, AI has been used and very much abused for a number of years now, especially where deep fakes are concerned, as this documentary examines.

Taylor is a young woman from a small town in Connecticut, who goes to college to study engineering. With it being such a male-dominated profession, it’s a little intimidating, but she ends up meeting some cool guys that she becomes friends with.

Then one day she gets a message from a friend, telling her she needs to check out a link. She clicks it, only to find a porn video of her having sex. The thing is, it isn’t her, her image has been placed on someone else, but to all intent and purposes it looks very much like she is in a porn video.

She is a victim of being deep faked, which isn’t even a crime in her State, so there’s nothing she can do about it. Or that’s what those who created it would like to think anyway. She decides to do a little investigating of her own, and quickly discovers, she is not alone.

There’s no doubting the subject matter of this documentary is truly fascinating. It’s a shame its narrative then isn’t as convincing as the deep fakes featured. Although it’s extremely up front from the start, that the woman featured is actually an actress and her name has been changed, for obvious reasons. And yet much like deep fakes, it’s made to feel very real. This creates a fair amount of confusion, as their not-so-deep fake is very believable.

It wouldn’t be an issue if it wasn’t the main element of its narrative. The problem is, there just aren’t enough contributions from experts and the like. There is one lawyer on camera, who knows his stuff, and that’s about it. And although focusing on one particular case is intriguing, it soon becomes rather insular, and therefore slightly diminishes the immense size of the problem.

And although having an almost crime detective vibe about it works, to a certain extent, it ultimately doesn’t lead anywhere.

Perhaps it was an issue of women coming forward, which you could understand to be a real problem, with a large part of their identities already lost, but with its use of actors and curious computer-generated scenes, it lacks a sense of reality, which is much needed.

You also need to see the other side of it, somehow confront someone who actually does the deep fake and ask them why. Their story is an important one to tell, however vile and despicable their actions are, as it would have been interesting to give their side some context at least.

Confronting some politicians would also have helped, quizzing them as to the lack of laws surrounding the 'crime' - and that's even if your particular State deems it as such.

It’s an admirable attempt at presenting a tricky issue, but sadly it only scratches the surface and doesn’t go nearly as deep as it needed to.