The Indian government and social media companies are developing standards to detect and prohibit DeepFake, an AI-powered photoshopping tool. The technique is mostly used to create contentious content and political comments to protect identity…
Due to the rising cases of DeepFake, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other celebrities have flagged, the government and social media companies are working to develop detailed guidelines for detecting, preventing, and spreading such misleading and fake video content within ten days (end of November 2023).
At a Thursday press conference after meeting with social media platforms,
India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw addressed the topic in a press conference after meeting social media platforms. He said deepfakes video-making organizations are a new threat to democracy and the Indian government is mulling new identity protection laws.
Modern photoshopping tool Deepfakes leverages ‘deep learning’ artificial intelligence. It swaps faces in raw content to create phony images based on events.
It works how?
With filthy or contentious videos, Deepfake modifies and modulates characters’ looks and voices.
Deepfake technology is mostly used to create and promote contentious content on social media. People mostly use technology to make pornographic stuff. Using deepfake technology, anybody may make any political statement.
Conclusion
Within 10 days (November 2023), the Indian government and social media corporations will publish guidelines for identifying, blocking, and spreading fraudulent and misleading video content. The Indian IT Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said deepfakes video-making organizations are a new threat to democracy and are mulling new identity protection laws. Deepfakes, a new photoshopping tool, employs ‘deep learning’ to create fake photographs based on events and change the faces of people in source content. Deepfake is mostly used to create provocative content and get noticed on social media, mostly pornography and political statements.
