How deepfakes in India are changing the world’s largest election
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 747 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
From the resurrection of dead leaders, to cloned voices of politicians and Bollywood stars, political campaigns are shaking up India’s general election by heavily investing in AI technology. Could it be a blueprint for elections everywhere?
In this episode:
- Nilesh Christopher, (@nilchristopher), Technology Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Chloe K. Li and Sonia Bhagat with our host Malika Bilal. Catherine Nouhan and Manahil Naveed fact-checked this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, how deep fake technology is influencing the world's largest election. |
| 0:17.0 | They're causing all kinds of chaos. |
| 0:20.0 | AI is being used to spread fake news, resurrect dead politicians, and even fabricate endorsements. |
| 0:27.6 | The budget for AI generated content is booming. |
| 0:31.6 | Could India's election be a blueprint for others around the world? |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Malika Bilal and this is the take. |
| 0:47.1 | The endorsement comes from a man in an office chair in what seems to be a temple. |
| 0:58.6 | In this video, he's dressed in a crisp white shirt with a yellow scarf draped around his neck, |
| 1:05.5 | complete with large dark sunglasses. |
| 1:09.6 | The man is M. Karunanadi, the former leader of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. |
| 1:15.8 | He's speaking in a video that came out earlier this year, and he's endorsing his son, |
| 1:21.4 | the state's current leader, for re-election. |
| 1:24.8 | When the COVID pandemic ravaged the world, our chief minister ran in the direction of panicked |
| 1:31.1 | voices of people. |
| 1:36.4 | The only problem? |
| 1:38.6 | Karunanadi died in 2018. |
| 1:42.4 | The video is a deep fake generated through artificial intelligence. |
| 1:47.0 | This is one of the year's first examples of AI in this general election. |
| 1:52.0 | Indian political parties are estimated to spend more than $50 million on it this year. |
| 1:58.0 | And there have been lots of examples of how it's playing out. There's voice clones, |
| 2:03.6 | there's AI images, AI propaganda songs, and we have also seen personalized messages that utter |
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