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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 Hera Rizwan A few weeks ago the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shared a video ad on its social media accounts mocking the INDIA alliance, caricaturing the politicians for not being able to figure out ‘Dulha kaun hai?’ or ‘who is the groom?’ The ad that was made by a political consultancy firm- Varahe Analytics- went viral. With OpenAI’s GPT store, political consultancy firms may not even have to look far for ideas when it comes to making ad campaigns targeting opponents. When this reporter gave a prompt to “curate a premise for an ad from BJP’s end mocking INDIA alliance” on the custom genera...
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By Archis Chowdhury The leading digital threat to elections this year is not artificial intelligence, but social media, says a recent report by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. The report, titled 'Digital Risks to the 2024 Elections', highlights the failures by social media companies in checking the spread of conspiracy theories and political disinformation, which led to the US Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, and Brazil's poll violence on January 8, 2022. Instead, the report states, social media companies have retreated in their efforts to ensure the safeguards are in plac...
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By Archis Chowdhury Last Saturday, on the eve of the Bangladesh national elections, two separate videos emerged on Facebook showing independent candidates Abdullah Nahid Nigar and Beauty Begum announcing their withdrawal from the polls. Both the videos were, however, deepfakes - digitally manipulated using deep generative methods. While Nigar won in her constituency, Begum lost with a margin of less than 3,000 votes. While it maybe impossible to ascertain the affects of the deepfake video of her withdrawal on her final vote count, it sets a worrying precedent for all future elections. The year...
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By Karen Rebelo A network of Facebook pages and profiles are running a fraud operation on the social media platform through fake ads and the use of AI voice clones of celebrities. BOOM found at least four Facebook pages and one profile using the name Suraj Sharma - likely a fake alias, perpetrating the scam. We also found multiple fake ads that have used AI-generated voices of Sadhguru and Shah Rukh Khan among others. These ads are being promoted on the platform. The con involves luring unsuspecting people into investing small sums of money with the promise of multiplying their returns overnig...
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