deepfake
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AI-Generated Evidence And The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023: Rethinking Authentication Standards
Abstract AI has transformed the nature of evidence, allowing the production of extremely convincing synthetic media such as fake videos, voice clones and AI-generated documents. The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (‘BSA’) acknowledges electronic and digital records and lays down guidelines for the admissibility of such records, but does not explicitly mention evidence created with the…
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Deepfakes as Weapons of Gendered Disinformation and the Failure of Existing Legal Remedies to Protect Victims
Introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its development into a deeply refined system which results in realistic outcomes has brought forth an epidemic of misinformation, privacy concerns and defamation issues. The Deepfakes are essentially either cured content or content entirely created from scratch in the form of image, audio or video. As the name in…
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Digital Trauma and Victimology: Rethinking Justice in the Age of Cybercrime
A teenager’s humiliation goes viral. Deepfake is a form of identity theft in which an individual takes on the identity of an unsuspecting professional. A survivor re-experiences their trauma whenever their name is searched. Now, where bruises and broken bones were once considered the most serious, they pale in comparison to the wounds that may…