Independent research conducted by CensusWide for Menlo Security, a specialist in cloud security, has revealed that one in three UK consumers believe that over half of all advertisements on websites or social media sites are generated by AI.

Menlo Security is warning of an increase in ‘malvertising’, a form of highly evasive threat where malware is embedded into online or social media ads – due to the rise in convincing fake ads created by AI tools like ChatGPT...