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While the wheels of law grind slowly and unevenly, the job of tracking down deepfakes has been taken up by hundreds of government workers and private fact-checking groups based in India.
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Indian society is scrambling to respond to an uptick of political deepfakes during critical elections. Its efforts could help build a roadmap on how democracies balance the good and the bad of artificial intelligence.
Shayan Sardarizadeh told a virtual panel about mental wellbeing in the newsroom, hosted by City University, on Wednesday: “That was the moment when there was a realisation something is wrong, we need to do something. “We basically had a meeting with our editor and we said look, this is a serious problem, not only are journalists leaving but we are now getting actual death threats, people are doxxing us on the internet, our addresses, our phone numbers, emails, our family members. “It got to a point where I was like, it’s fine for me but I don’t want my sister or my dad or my mum to ...