How Audio Deepfakes Are Adding To The Cacophony Of Online Misinformation

Artificially generated audio clips increasingly becoming a potent means to spread misinformation. Is there a way to combat this spread? Logically Facts takes a look.

Representative image created using an AI tool.

Source : Logically Facts

The internet had a field day with AI-generated audio-visuals of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni after the duo met during the G20 summit in New Delhi in September 2023 and then during the COP28 conference in Dubai in December 2023. These videos, mostly overlaid with Bollywood songs and dialogues in Modi’s voice, created using synthetic audio, have amassed millions of views on platforms like Instagram.