Last week, a video of Ranveer Singh went viral on the Internet by which the actor might be seen voicing his political opinion. File
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Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh, who was not too long ago the target of a deepfake video, lodged a grievance with the Mumbai Police’s Cyber Crime Cell on April 22.
“We have filed a police complaint and FIR [First Information Report] against the social media handle promoting the AI [Artificial Intelligence]-generated deepfake video of Mr. Singh,” the actor’s spokesperson shared in an announcement.
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The AI-generated deep faux video has the actor giving his political opinion and endorsing a selected political party from his current Varanasi go to. In the unique video, which was edited, the actor was at a style present in the identical metropolis.
Parts of the 41-second lengthy unique video have been doctored utilizing faux audio. The actor additionally alerted his followers on social media platform X asking them to watch out for deepfakes.
In fast succession, Mr. Singh is the second actor to be deepfake’s sufferer. Less than per week in the past, celebrity Aamir Khan had registered a complaint in reference to a deepfake video of him purportedly seen selling a political party.