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‘What about singing for Melanie?’ – Fans react as PM Narendra Modi addresses the deepfake videos!

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned that ‘deepfakes’ could cause a major crisis and even fuel discontent in our diverse society. On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he saw a morphed […]

Nov 18, 2023 3:10 pm

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned that ‘deepfakes’ could cause a major crisis and even fuel discontent in our diverse society. On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he saw a morphed video of himself doing Garba, highlighting the misuse of artificial intelligence in the creation of deepfakes. “I watched my deep fake video of me doing garba, but I haven’t done garba since high school. Someone made my deepfake video,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during a press conference at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Diwali Milan program in the national capital.

PM Narendra Modi warns against AI:

Deepfakes, according to Modi, could cause a major crisis and even fuel discontent in a diverse society like ours. The Prime Minister told reporters, “A new crisis is emerging as a result of deepfakes produced by artificial intelligence. There is a large segment of society that lacks a parallel verification system.” Modi’s comments come only a few days after a ‘deepfake’ video of actor Rashmika Mandanna went viral on social media. The original video was said to be of a British-Indian influencer whose face had been altered to resemble Mandanna’s. Previously, Bollywood actresses such as Katrina Kaif and Rashmika Mandanna were victims of this perilous technology.

The video prompted numerous calls for technology regulation. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister for Electronics and Technology, stated on the social media platform X that deepfakes are the most recent and “more dangerous and damaging form of misinformation” that social media platforms must deal with. He also mentioned the legal obligations of social media platforms and IT rules concerning digital deception.

The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology directed earlier this month that social media platforms take the steps required by Indian law to weed out misinformation and deepfakes. The two letters, dated November 6 and 7, were issued as follow-ups to the ministry’s February advisory on deepfakes. They reminded social media platforms of their obligations under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) of 2021. Check out the netizens’ reactions to his new statement.