New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged the issue of misuse of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for making deepfake videos and alerted everyone about the looming threat.<\/p>\n
PM Modi addressed the deepfake videos issue, while speaking to journalists at BJP\u2019s Diwali Milan programme at the party\u2019s headquarters in the national capital.<\/p>\n
While listing out the challenges, he also mentioned about his own deepfake video doing the rounds.<\/p>\n
\u2018I watched my deep fake video in which I\u2019m doing garba,\u201d the prime minister said<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the reality is that I have not done garba after my school life. Someone made my deepfake video,\u201d he told the journalists at BJP\u2019s Diwali Milan program in national capital.<\/p>\n
PM Modi also called upon the journalists to stay vigilant on issues like artificial intelligence and \u2018deepfakes and help make people aware about its consequences\u2019.<\/p>\n
PM Modi also urged the citizens to stay alert & vigilant against the challenges that the new technology i.e. artificial intelligence poses at us.<\/p>\n
\u201cA new crisis is emerging due to deepfakes produced through artificial intelligence. There is a very big section of society which does not have a parallel verification system,\u201d PM told journalists.<\/p>\n
Notably, the deepfake video of PM Modi which went viral showed a man resembling the Prime Minister dancing and doing garba. An India Today Fact Check reported that the person in video was actually of PM\u2019s lookalike Vikas Mahante.<\/p>\n
PM Modi\u2019s remarks come amid anxiety & anger over series of deepfake videos involving leading actresses. In the viral deepfake videos, the torso of some person was fixed with faces of actresses like Rashmika Mandana, Katrina Kaif and Kajol and then circulated on internet.<\/p>\n
What govt said on threat posed by deepfakes<\/span><\/h2>\nThe government was prompt enough to take note of the deepfakes creating chaos in the society.<\/p>\n
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union minister for electronics and technology, said that deepfakes are the latest and a \u201cmore dangerous and damaging form of misinformation\u201d that needs to be dealt firmly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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