The major drawback of constantly evolving AI use is deepfake technology. It allows cybercriminals to not only mimic their voice but also make someone videos AI that look real. The latest victim who falls under the case of deepfake technology is actor Rashmika Mandanna.
The video of Rashmika Mandanna took the internet by storm and went viral. It featured a famous actress who enters an elevator. From a closer investigation, this video is determined to be deepfake, a manipulated online video. It is all because of AI technology that is not taken for granted by cyber.
What is Deepfake
Deepfake is a synthetic video in which a person in a real video is replaced with someone else face by using AI technology. The process of making fake videos is old, but deepfake evolves the AI more and generates audio and visual content with high potential quickly. It leads to more cybercriminals in the world.
Deepfakes are identified by unnatural movements or facial expressions, like blinking, not enough resolution, or jerky movements. If you experience these types of movements, then it is surely synthetic video. You must have fixed eyesight to see whether the video is fake or real. Deepfake has unfocused or blurry eyes that do not match the actual head movements of a person.
Rashmika Mandanna viral Video
The video of actress Rashmika Mandanna in the elevator goes viral online. It gained millions of viewers and crossed 2.4 million on a popular social media platform, Twitter. People start to tweet about it without knowing the real truth behind it. One of the journalists, Abhishek Kumar, shared the video on Twitter and raised his concerns about taking regulatory and legal actions. He wants Rashmika Mandanna to get justice by combatting the fake content online.
In starting, the video was shared on 8 October on Instagram and featured the woman, Zara Patel. There is no clue available that suggests that Patel was involved in this deepfake video. It is still a mystery who made this fake video of Rashmika or who motivated such fake content on social media. Unfortunately, it is not isolated content; there are many celebrities from different areas who are victims whose fake videos go viral on the internet quickly.
The original video is of Zara Patel, a British-Indian girl with 415K followers on Instagram. She uploaded this video on Instagram on 9 October. (2/3) pic.twitter.com/MJwx8OldJU
— Abhishek (@AbhishekSay) November 5, 2023
Big B wants legal action.
Big B of the Bollywood industry, Amitabh Bachchan, wants legal action against this fake video case. he wants Rashmika Mandanna to get justice so it will not happen to someone else. Amitabh Bachchan shared the video on his Twitter account and said that deepfakes make a case strong.
Further, he also said that if you play videos side by side, you find the actual difference between authentic video and deepfake video. In the real video, Zara Patel’s face is visible clearly when she enters the elevator. But after a few seconds, the video is transformed, and it copies the face of Rashmika Mandanna. This is how the video of Rashmika is going viral on the internet.
Conclusion
Rashmika Mandanna is a popular celebrity who became a victim of cybercrime after her videos went viral on the internet. Her deepfake video featured herself, in which she wears a black outfit and enters an elevator. But actually, she was not in the video. It was a deepfake video in which her face is only pasted on someone else’s face. After the viral video, many people pointed it out as a fake AI video, and Big B also stands to take legal action against it.
