Prime Minister Modi Cautions About Deepfake

Flagging the misuse of artificial intelligence for creating deepfakes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that he even saw a morphed video of himself doing Garba. Modi also warned that deepfakes can cause a big crisis and even stoke the fire of disaffection in a diverse society like ours. Modi's statement comes days after a ‘deepfake’ video of actor Rashmika Mandanna went viral on the internet. The original video was stated to be of a British-Indian influencer, whose face had been edited with Mandanna's face. The video had led to widespread calls for regulation of the technology. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union minister for electronics and technology, had said on the social media platform X that deepfakes are the latest and a “more dangerous and damaging form of misinformation” that needs to be dealt with by social media platforms.