Proliferation of Deepfakes Disrupting 2024 Lok Sabha Elections
December 27, 2023
Digital manipulators in India are using deepfake technology to influence the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. These AI-generated videos and audio clips are designed to tarnish the reputations of political candidates, challenging the integrity of electoral processes.
- Alleged deployer
- political-candidates-of-the-2024-lok-sabha-elections
- Alleged developer
- the-indian-deepfaker, the-digital-publicity, rohit-pal, obiyan-infotech, merakii-group
- Alleged harmed parties
- political-candidates-targeted-by-deepfakes, indian-electorate, india, democracy
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/668
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