Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned about the cruel effect of using AI (artificial intelligence) to make misleading content also called deepfakes, which pose a substantial threat to social cohesion and cross-cultural understanding such as India.
Underscoring the opportunities for misleading of AI tools to make fabricated content PM Modi revealed that he had experienced a misleading and AI-generated video showing him doing the Garba, he commented “I encounted a deep fake video of doing the Garba”, He also clarified by the statement that I have not participated in Garba since my school days. This video is fabricated.
Drawing upon the February advisory on deepfakes, the Cyber Laws Division of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released two follow-up letters on November 6 and 7 separately. These letters acted as social media prompts of their duties by Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) 2021
He also elevated worries about the threat of deepfake videos and their impact on spreading rumors as well as amplifying societal discord in a nation as diverse as ours. The rise of deepfakes created by artificial intelligence represents a new peril, on this, he depicts a warning to journalists. A considerable segment of society is deficient in the power to check the facts for yourself of such content. Modi’s statement follows the recent widespread circulation of these misleading videos including Rashmika Mandanna’s fake video.
The authentic video supposedly showed an Indian-British Influencer whose face- swapped with Rashmika Mandanna’s photos, propagation of his deep fake- video has provoked widespread demands for enhanced oversight of this technology. India’s Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrashekhar promoted heavily on social media platforms must successfully address this.
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Previously this month, the Union Ministry of this department ordered social media platforms to take action, highlighting the responsibility, to comply with Indian law by taking preemptive actions to eliminate misinformation and synthetic media from their platforms.
