Deepfake videos and images grow ahead of Indian polls, stirring unease

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AI-generated videos and voices have become a handy tool for political parties in India.

AI-generated images of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu in prison.

This video, broadcast live by several Tamil news channels, was playing on the television in a Chennai mall’s break room as housekeeper Frieda Devadasan, 56, sipped her tea. She watched the broadcast, but only realised days later that the video of the leader she had grown up seeing had been “created by computers”.

Not to be left behind, DMK’s rival, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam , also released in late February an AI-generated audio clip of its own leader J. Jayalalithaa, who died in 2016. Drawing in voters with AI-generated content that is acknowledged to be fake is one thing. But its use by political parties, which escalated in India in 2023 during elections in five states, can often be insidious.

Deepfakes are manipulated media that creates a person’s likeness in an image or a video. They are created via AI using deep learning algorithms. He anticipated that parties with the most funds, like the ruling BJP, opposition Congress, Tamil Nadu’s DMK and AIADMK, and West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress, would invest in AI-content especially in constituencies with close contests.

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