The truth has a filter now- Deepfake

Deepfake is something that has come from the type of deep artificial learning, and the word fake is added to it when it is being misused because of AI to generate fake videos, images, audio, etc., that are not real or happened somewhere but are being manipulated to cause a sense of harm or false perception.
If we take an example of a voice clip mimicking a politician with words they never spoke, it is a very common example we see in our daily life of social media. We do like those reels and do commentary and then move on with another flow of reels. But we don't understand the importance of these false pieces of content being provided.

How Many Reported Deepfake Cases Have Involved Women in India?

🔹 Indore (May 2024)
A 22-year-old man was arrested for creating fake porn images of 10+ women, mostly college students.
Distributed them on social media to blackmail and threaten the victims.
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🔹 Belagavi, Karnataka (Nov 2023)
A “jilted lover” deepfaked nude images of a woman and her friends, threatening to share them after she declined his advances.
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🔹 Rashmika Mandanna Deepfake (Nov 2023–Jan 2024)
A video superimposed the actress’s face onto another body, prompting a high-profile FIR, Delhi Police investigation, and arrests.
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🔹 Counseling Records (2022–2024)
Advocate Debarati Halder of the Centre for Cyber Victim Counseling has counseled over a dozen women whose faces were used in AI-generated pornographic deepfakes—even simple “photo mashups” can cause lifelong damage.
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And the present case of :

Assam – Archita Phukan (2025)

Her ex-boyfriend created a fake Instagram profile using AI-morphed images, including a viral photo with Kendra Lust. He earned ₹10+ lakh before being arrested. Archita had no idea until it went viral.
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These all are alarming concerns for women, as they are the ones who are most being targeted around, and one such main backdrop we have is of legal systems and digital policies lagging way behind. And a normal rape case takes months to provide justice; then, if we talk about digital cases, it may take up to years. The awareness wing is the best way to stay updated with all the ethical guidelines and ways to prevent this.
Where AI is used to reduce human work and not misuse it and not take its place. But now what we observe and listen to is totally different. We need to stay aware of this and should see how to stay protected, and with all the digital knowledge, use ethical means and try not to share much of your profile on social media, as it is not a place of connection and entertainment anymore; it has become a serious threat.
You should use watermarks in such a way to avoid deepfakes, and the easiest way is to stay away from AI face recognition security and switch off the mode that is linked with AI, but it is very difficult to stay away from such a thing, which in a normal human life has become a necessity. But getting a false media image that harms you and your reputation and education towards any work is so meaningless it is like getting an educational and professional degree but still opting to not do work and get married or not do any work, which is a waste and useless.

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