Proliferation of Deepfakes Disrupting 2024 Lok Sabha Elections

December 27, 2023

The misuse of deepfake technology in India's upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections is a concerning issue. These AI-generated videos and audio clips, designed to tarnish the reputations of political candidates, pose a threat to the electoral process's integrity. Such incidents highlight the need for trustworthy AI governance to ensure safe and secure AI practices.

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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

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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