Rashmika Mandanna’s deepfake video, which surfaced on Monday, has sparked responses from actors Naga Chaitanya and Mrunal Thakur. Aside from veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan, singer Chinmayi Sripaada too, has responded to the video, which featured social media influencer Zara Patel. Mandanna’s face was positioned on Patel’s physique. Within the video, Patel was sporting a exercise onesie and getting into an elevator.
Rashmika, in a submit on X, wrote, “I really feel actually damage to share this and have to speak concerning the deepfake video of me being unfold on-line. One thing like that is truthfully, extraordinarily scary not just for me but in addition for every considered one of us who at the moment is weak to a lot hurt due to how know-how is being misused. At this time, as a girl and as an actor, I’m grateful for my household, mates and well-wishers who’re my safety and help system. But when this occurred to me after I was at school or school, I genuinely can’t think about how might I ever deal with this. We have to handle this as a group and with urgency earlier than extra of us are affected by such identification theft.”
Amitabh Bachchan shared a submit of an X person, who wrote, “There’s an pressing want for a authorized and regulatory framework to take care of deepfake in India.” Bachchan wrote, “Sure this can be a sturdy case for authorized.”
Deepfake is when an individual’s picture is altered to position one other’s image on it to advertise false information. Celebrities who’ve grow to be victims of deepfakes embrace Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks amongst others.
Scarlett Johansson is taking authorized motion in opposition to an app for utilizing AI to make use of her voice and likeness for an advert. Tom Hanks, had, final month, stated that an advert for a dental plan used an AI-generated likeness with out consent. Actor Kristen Bell stated her picture had been manipulated and utilized in express content material on the web in June 2020. Identified YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson’s photographs have been utilized in deceptive commercials that claimed to supply $2 iPhones to viewers.
“A number of months in the past, a video of considered one of our most favorite actors in an AI avatar carried out to Kaavaalaa from Jailer was launched — solely it wasn’t her. It was a Deep Faux. No one is aware of for positive whether or not Ms Simran had consented prematurely to her likeness getting used within the Deep Faux AI rendering of Kaavaalaa. She shared it on her social media pages as nicely. Now a deepfake Rashmika video has surfaced and I simply noticed her Instagram story the place she genuinely seems disturbed – In a rustic the place girls’s our bodies are exploited daily, deepfake goes to be the subsequent weapon they use to focus on and harass and blackmail ladies to extort, blackmail and rape,” singer Chinmayi Sripaada wrote on X.
Actor Naga Chaitanya wrote, “It’s actually disheartening to see how know-how is being misused and the considered what this may progress to sooner or later is even scarier. Motion must be taken and a few type of legislation must be enforced to guard individuals who have been and might be a sufferer of this. Power to you.”
“Disgrace on individuals who resort to such issues. It exhibits there isn’t any conscience left in any respect in such individuals. Thanks @rashmika_mandanna for talking up, and for addressing this concern that thus far we have now seen glimpses of, however numerous us selected to stay silent. Every single day, there are morphed, edited movies of feminine actors floating round on the web zooming into inappropriate physique elements. The place are we heading as a group, and as a society? We could also be actresses within the “limelight” however on the finish of the day, every considered one of us is human. Why aren’t we speaking about it? Do not stay silent, now shouldn’t be the time,” actor Mrunal Thakur wrote.
