Digital Doppelgangers: How To Navigate The Deepfake Deluge

AI is a tool, and like any tool, it reflects the intentions of the user. It is up to us, the global netizens, to wield it with care.

Rashmika Mandanna is the latest celebrity to fall victim to viral deepfakes.

By Jaspreet Bindra The German language is good at coining words, and doppelganger is one of them. A doppelgänger means double-walker and is a look-alike or a double of a living person. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is often portrayed as a ghostly or paranormal phenomenon, usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck; sometimes it is also referred to as an evil twin. Rashmika Mandanna would have been shocked to see her doppelganger, a digital one at that, circulating on the