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Did they smile? Experts dissect the growing concern of AI-powered deepfakes
Updated On: 04 June, 2023 08:57 AM IST | Mumbai | Gautam S Mengle
The manipulation of a picture of the protesting women wrestlers in Delhi has demonstrated just how powerful the monster of AI-powered editing has become. Will we figure out how to tame it?
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Wrestlers Vinesh and Sangeet Phogat in the actual picture taken inside the police vehicle after they were detained on Mat 28 for marching in protest towards Naya Sansad. The picture to the right is morphed using an Artificial Intelligence-powered software called Face App
Last week, a picture of the wrestlers protesting against BJP Member of Parliament and Wrestling Federation of India chief Brijbhushan Sharan Singh went viral. Vinesh and Sangeeta Phogat were seated in row one inside a police vehicle, and smiling. Vinesh is a two-time Olympian, having won two Commonwealth Games golds, one Asian Games gold and was crowned Asian champion in 2021. She also has a World Championships bronze which she won in 2019. Singh is accused by 10 women complainants, including a minor, of groping, harassment. Details of the two FIRs emerged last Friday, highlighting shocking details, including the account of one complainant said: “While I was lying down on the mat, the accused [Singh] came near me and to my shock and surprise leaned in and, in the absence of my coach, without seeking my permission pulled up my T-shirt, placed his hand on my breast and slid it down my stomach on the pretext of examining/checking my breathing”
The wrestlers, after over a month of sitting on dharna at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, had decided to hold a Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat or women’s assembly on the same day as the inauguration of the New Parliament building when they were “detained for violating law and order”. As pictures of the Delhi police physically stopping the women wrestlers and forcefully boarding them into buses began to circulate on social media, the selfie of them smiling emerged. Within minutes, the narrative shifted to how their suffering was hogwash.
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