Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif on Tuesday became the latest victim of deepfake AI after her towel pictures were morphed by an unknown user. Kartina Kaif's Deepfake photo went viral in no time as it happened at a time when netizens and the Bollywood fraternity have been demanding a strict law against Deepfake AI. For the unversed, Bollywood actress Rashmika Mandanna's deepfake video recently went viral on social media, however, fans were quick to identify that the woman in the clip is not the Pushpa actress. Now, Katrina Kaif deepfake photo is going viral on social media.
Katrina Kaif's towel photo was morphed and miscreants removed the towel of the actress. Katrina Kaif's towel photo was shared by the actress herself. Katrina Kaif's viral photo is from the sets of her upcoming movie Tiger 3 alongside Salman Khan. In the Katrina Kaif deepfake pic, the actress was seen without a towel and miscreants had added a white bikini.
Deepfakes are synthetic media that have been digitally manipulated to replace one person's likeness convincingly with that of another.
Rashmika Mandanna deepfake controversy
A journalist on Sunday took to his X handle and shared the video writing, "There is an urgent need for a legal and regulatory framework to deal with deepfake in India. You might have seen this viral video of actress Rashmika Mandanna on Instagram. But wait, this is a deepfake video of Zara Patel. This thread contains the actual video.
"The original video is of Zara Patel, a British-Indian girl with 415K followers on Instagram. She uploaded this video on Instagram on 9 October...From a deepfake POV, the viral video is perfect enough for ordinary social media users to fall for it. But if you watch the video carefully, you can see at (0:01) that when Rashmika (deepfake) was entering the lift, suddenly her face changes from the other girl to Rashmika."
Reacting to the controversy, Rashmika Mandanna on her Instagram story wrote, "I feel really hurt to share this and have to talk the deepfake video of me being spread online. Something like this is honestly, extremely scary not only for me, but also for each one of us who today is vulnerable to so much harm because of how technology is being misused.
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