Deepfakes: Deepfakes are turning into a serious issue on a global scale. One way to use it is to spread misinformation or insult an individual. In a situation such as this, its application in elections is deeply feared. The government has started to make arrangements in this regard. The government intends to dispatch a team of experts in deepfake detection before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
What is a Deepfake?
A deepfake is a synthetic image that has been digitally altered to effectively swap out one person’s appearance for another. Powerful machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches, such deep learning and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are used to construct deepfakes.
Videos with an artificial face placed on someone else’s face are the most common type of deepfake. The end product is a very realistic-looking recording of someone speaking or doing something they never said or did. Deep fakes are distinct from other types of fraudulent information in that they are exceedingly challenging to spot as fake.
Videos, pictures, or audio recordings that have been modified by deep learning algorithms—a type of advanced artificial intelligence—can be considered deepfakes.
Deepfake unit
The Cyber Wing Department of the Home Ministry will soon create a deepfake detection tool. According to sources, the BPRD (Bureau of Police Research and Development) and the MHA’s I4C branch are working very hard to develop a deepfake detecting tool.
According to information gathered from ministry sources, this detecting technology will be given to the police at every single cyber police station across the country. This will make it possible to identify deepfake videos.
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