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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A deepfake video of actor Aamir Khan purportedly criticising an old 2013 statement made by then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of depositing Rs 15 lakh in every Indian's bank account is viral online. Fact: BOOM found that the claim is false, the video uses an AI voice clone of Aamir Khan; the original video is from 2014 and has been overlaid with a fake audio to depict Khan's criticism of the central government. Tools used: We noticed that the background score of the video was from the show Satyamev Jayate and scanned its YouTube channel. We found that...
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By Divya Chandra A group of fact-checkers, academicians, tech experts and policy experts came together for a panel discussion on ‘Decoding Deepfakes & Elections’ organised by BOOM’s Decode held in New Delhi on 15 April 2024. The ConsensusDeepfakes is a worrying trend.People generating mis/disinformation are only limited by their imagination since it's extremely easy to create fake stories.The technology used to create false information is better than the one used to detect it.Investment is more in the market generating deepfakes than the one detecting it.Mayank Vatsa, professor of computer sci...
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By Swasti Chatterjee Amit Malviya, Bharatiya Janata Party's IT cell head on Monday falsely claimed a video of party candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav alias Nirahua making remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath being childless, was a deepfake. In the video, Yadav the BJP candidate from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, claimed Modi and Adityanath have preferred to be childless to stop unemployment. It was posted by Indian Youth Congress President Srinivas BV on X and the same was rubbished as a deepfake by Malviya and Yadav himself. BOOM found that the video...
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By Dipanjan Sinha Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in politics is an ethical debate that the entire intellectual spectrum is unsure of. But in an unexpected turn of events, the Bengal branch of the CPI (M)- The Communist Party of India (Marxist)- often accused of being opposed to computers in the 90s, stepped ahead of others a few weeks ago with an AI generated presenter, Samata. In two episodes that are out now, the avatar, a sari-clad woman, reads out the party’s perspective on recent events in West Bengal in English. The first episode out on March 27 was about the collapse of a building ...
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By Karen Rebelo Ira Sharma describes herself on Instagram in three short sentences. ‘A normal girl’; ‘loves bgms* and songs’ and ‘Not real (alien)’. The last sentence in her bio is ironically accurate. That’s because Ira Sharma, who has over 2,60,000 followers on Instagram, is not real. The handle me_ira.sharma, created in November 2023, is a deepfake influencer made by stealing reels of young Indian women on the Meta-owned platform and morphing those videos using face swap technology. Deepfake influencers are a small but growing subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or virtual influencers th...
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By Anmol Alphonso Two Artificial Intelligence generated voice clones of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's message written while in Enforcement Directorate custody, were posted by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders on X on Saturday. AAP Mumbai working President, Ruben Mascarenhas posted the AI voice cloned message on X in Hindi and English. The same letter, had earlier been read out by Kejriwal's wife, Sunita Kejriwal, earlier in the day. Kejriwal had sent the message while in custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday in which the AAP chief said he cannot be kept behind bars for l...
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By Anmol Alphonso A deepfake video of United States President Joe Biden is being shared falsely claiming that he has invoked the Selective Service Act, which will draft 20-year-olds through a lottery to the military after the recent drone attack on a US military outpost in Jordan. BOOM found that the viral video is an AI-generated deepfake that was viral last year with false claims linking it to US tensions with Russia and China, and its audio has now being edited to falsely link it to recent tensions between the US and Iran in the Middle East Three US soldiers were killed in a drone attack on...
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By Anmol Alphonso A viral photo purporting to show United States President Joe Biden wearing a military uniform in a meeting with military officials, is AI-generated. The photo is being shared on social media claiming that it shows President Biden in a meeting to authorise US military action in the Middle East. Three US soldiers were killed in a drone attack on a US military outpost in Jordan on January 29, 2024. They were identified as Sgt. William Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Specialist Kennedy Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Specialist Breonna Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia...
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By Karen Rebelo Artificial Intelligence (AI) voice cloning technology was used to spread disinformation in the run-up to the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections last year, an investigation by Decode has found. Decode reached out to two experts separately to analyse four videos, which were viral in the run-up to the 2023 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and which we strongly suspected to have been made with AI voice cloning technology. The experts independently confirmed that the four videos contained AI generated audio. It was not clear who created the doctored videos though. The disinformat...
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By Anmol Alphonso Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar took to X to call out a deepfake video that is being shared on social media purporting to show him endorsing a gaming app called 'Skyward Aviator Quest' which is available on the Apple App Store. In the 30 seconds ad, Tendulkar can be heard speaking in Hindi and appealing to people to download the gaming app - 'Skyward Aviator Quest' from Apple Play Store. The ad also claims that Tendulkar's daughter - Sara plays the game. BOOM has previously reported on similar such fraud ads that used Artificial Intelligence (AI) and were using voice...
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