DeepfakeHigh
AI Deepfakes for Voter Outreach Flood Indian Elections
- Occurred
- Apr 1, 2024
- Published
- May 20, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
During the 2024 Indian elections, politicians used AI-generated deepfakes to reach voters, who might be unaware they're interacting with digital clones. Providers like Divyendra Singh Jadoun of Polymath Synthetic Media Solutions created deepfakes for personalized messages. This practice, used by various political parties, is not truthful, as voters may be misled by AI-generated content posing as genuine interactions with political figures.
Developers
- Divyendra Singh Jadoun
- Polymath Synthetic Media Solutions
- Sagar Vishnoi
- iToConnect
- IndiaSpeaks Research Lab
- Sumit Savara
Deployers
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
- Indian National Congress (INC)
- Prem Singh Tamang
- Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
- Ram Chandra Choudhary
Harmed parties
- Indian voters
- General public misled by deepfake content
- Political integrity and election fairness
- Epistemic integrity
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI-generated deepfakes used to mislead voters in elections constitutes a significant democratic harm and potential regulatory violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8