An FIR has been lodged by the Delhi Police against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders for allegedly posting AI-generated photos and videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on their official X handle.
This comes as both parties have been engaging in social media wars ahead of the upcoming Delhi elections, slated to be held on February 5. The FIR was filed at the North Avenue police station on Monday.
According to a senior police officer, they had received a complaint regarding some objectionable photos and videos of the prime minister and home minister on the official X handle of the ruling party. The alleged videos were posted by the AAP on January 10 and January 13. One of the videos which was made by the AI-deepfake technology showed a scene from a 90s Bollywood flick where the faces of villainswere swapped with the BJP leaders and audio was changed to conversation on Delhi polls. Another shows Amit Shah stating that Kejriwal is not honest to a child.
Notably, since the beginning of the elections, an AI-war of deep fake videos has broken out between two parties -- AAP and BJP -- with both of them posting several videos targeting each other and praising their own work.
The officer informed that after analysing the complaint, an FIR was lodged under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) at New Delhi’s North Avenue police station and an investigation has been initiated.
