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India is Teeming With ‘Cheapfakes’, Deepfakes Could Make It Worse

Disinformation using videos in India so far have been clips of real incidents shared with a false narratives to drive home polarisation. Hyper-real deepfake videos could make it worse.

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India is Teeming With ‘Cheapfakes’, Deepfakes Could Make It Worse

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  1. India Is Teeming With ‘Cheapfakes’, Deepfakes Could Make It Worse Disinformation using videos in India so far have been clips of real incidents shared with a false narratives to drive home polarisation. Hyper-real deepfake videos could make it worse.

  2. News» Hyper-realistic deepfake videos created using Artificial Intelligence (AI) could open the proverbial Pandora’s box in India with its insatiable appetite for video where even real videos with fake narratives have been used to spread disinformation effectively. While a recently created deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg has reignited talk of an inevitable AI Armageddon, fact-checkers, researchers and technologists in India are nervously watching advancements in such technologies outpace efforts to detect it. Deepfake pornographic videos with faces of female celebrities already exists in murky corners of the internet. An extension of the technology into journalism and thereby its impact on democracy is an ongoing debate globally. But even before deepfakes or ‘cheapfakes’ – the latest fact-checking buzzword to describe doctored content created using rudimentary tech, India has shown that even cropping a video can lead to loss of lives. In 2017 a public awareness ad about missing children in Pakistan was mischievously edited and projected as actual CCTV footage fueling rumours of child kidnappings in India. (Read more here)

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