AI Deepfakes for Voter Outreach Flood Indian Elections
April 1, 2024
During the 2024 Indian elections, politicians used AI-generated deepfakes to reach voters, who might be unaware they're interacting with digital clones. Providers like Divyendra Singh Jadoun of Polymath Synthetic Media Solutions created deepfakes for personalized messages. This practice, used by various political parties, is not truthful, as voters may be misled by AI-generated content posing as genuine interactions with political figures.
- Alleged deployer
- bharatiya-janata-party-(bjp), indian-national-congress-(inc), prem-singh-tamang, y.-s.-jagan-mohan-reddy, ram-chandra-choudhary
- Alleged developer
- divyendra-singh-jadoun, polymath-synthetic-media-solutions, sagar-vishnoi, itoconnect, indiaspeaks-research-lab, sumit-savara
- Alleged harmed parties
- indian-voters, general-public-misled-by-deepfake-content, political-integrity-and-election-fairness, democracy, truth
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/730
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