A deepfake video of actor Rashmika Mandanna has been doing the rounds on social media. Recently, Rashmika responded to the viral clip showing her face pasted on another woman’s body using artificial intelligence (AI). In her statement on X, Rashmika said she was ‘really hurt’ by the ‘extremely scary’ deepfake video of her being spread online. Now, in an interview with India Today, actor Sonnalli Seygall has opened up about going through something similar
It really affected her. She said what are these pictures of yours? And I was like they are not really mom, they are morphed and. So it’s very sad. It’s scary and makes me angry. It’s completely illegal and just because they’re faceless people doing this does not make it okay by any standards.
Sonnalli further spoke against Rashmika Mandanna deepfake video and called for action. She said, “Oh my God, it’s scary. Very, very scary. Of course, we have all seen it in the past with pictures, and that was always debatable, but this is so real to the point. I mean, it’s so illegal. Immediate action needs to be taken against this
Earlier, Rashmika’s Goodbye co-star Amitabh Bachchan had called for action after her deepfake video began circulating. The person in the video is a British woman named Zara Patel, who has a huge social media following.
Amitabh had taken to X to re-share a tweet by a user calling for the ‘urgent need for a legal and regulatory framework to deal with deepfake in India’ amid Rashmika’s fake clip going viral. Reacting to the tweet, the veteran actor shared the video and wrote, “Yes, this is a strong case for legal.”
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