Manoj Tiwari attacks political adversary with deepfake Haryanvi broadcast
India's ruling political party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was discovered using deepfake videos to attack an adversary running in the Legislative Assembly elections in Delhi. BJP President Manoj Tiwari attacked opponent Arvind Kejriwal in three languages, incliding Hindi dialect Hariyanvi, which Tiwari doesn't speak, in an effort to reach Kejriwal's voters. Political opponents and digital rights advocates lashed out at Tiwari and the BJP for engaging in what they saw as underhand and unethical behaviour. The incident, in which the videos were shared in over 5,800 WhatsApp groups and are said to have reached 15 million people, appears to be the first time deepfakes have been used for a political campaign, in India and elsewhere. Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Incident video Operator: Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP); Manoj Tiwari Developer: The Ideaz Factory Country: India Sector: Politics Purpose: Undermine political opponent Technology: Deepfake - audio; Machine learning Issue: Mis/disinformation; Ethics/values Investigations, assessments, audits 🧐 Deepfaked. Deepfakes used in Indian election campaign
- Date it happened
- 2020-02-01
- Organisation involved
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); Manoj Tiwari
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