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The dark side of AI in India’s election

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence has been used to help translate election candidates into hundreds of different languages — but also to create deepfakes of Bollywood stars and spread false news. The BBC’s Arunoday Mukharji reports.

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What's real and what's not in India's elections.

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From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

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I'm Lily. The India election has been a tale of two AIs, as almost a billion Indians who are eligible to vote hit the polls.

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Artificial intelligence has been used to help translate election candidates

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into a range of Indian languages but it's also been used to create deep fakes of

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Bollywood stars and spread false news and information. As India awaits its

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election results the BBC's Arunidae Mukherjee reports on AI as a force for good and bad.

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Sometimes it helps if politicians can be at multiple places at the same time.

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Enter artificial intelligence or AI. From a local leader appealing to multiple voters on what-

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what's up.

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A. Piai Manoj Bhagat

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a papnak shaitre may have me shaphalhong. To a cloned voice of Prime Minister Norengid Moi encouraging his party candidates,

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