AI-generated clips are spreading across Instagram, Facebook and X amid protests in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai. These misleading posts include sexualised footage, forged documents and fake visuals. Many users got confused as these viral videos showed false scenes. Platforms started to restrict individual accounts to stop this spread of fake content.
Several AI-generated clips have gone viral on Instagram, Facebook and X, drawing millions of views and comments. A recent viral clip of a woman criticising the protests, for instance, led users to an Instagram profile that regularly posts AI-generated political content.
Bengaluru: A video of a scantily clad, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated woman trying to stop a police van, sexualised content edited into protest footage, forged documents attributed to protest leaders and old visuals passed off as current footage are among the misleading posts circulating on social media amid the ongoing protests in Delhi-National Capital Region and Mumbai against the chief election commissioner and the special intensive