Doctored videos have taken center stage as India’s election campaigns intensify, with fake clips of two top aides to Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompting police investigations and the arrest of some workers from his rival Congress party.
In what has been called India’s first AI elections, Modi said last week that fake votes were being used to show leaders “making statements that we have never even thought of,” calling it a conspiracy “to create tension in to create society.”
Indian police – already investigating the spread of fake videos showing Bollywood actors criticizing Modi – are now investigating a doctored online clip in which federal Home Minister Amit Shah showed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party certain social guarantees for minorities will stop, a topic that is sensitive to millions of people. voters.
