Deepfake video: Narayana Murthy's video claiming salary of up to $3,000 a day in an AI firm goes viral

A new deepfake video of Infosys founder Narayana Murthy is going viral in Facebook. The deepfake video has morphed two previous videos of the Business Tycoon from two different events.

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The videos show Narayana Murthy promoting a so-called investing platform “Quantum AI”. One of the now deleted videos on Facebook showed a morphed version of the software leader purportedly saying he and billionaire Elon Musk are working on a project called “Quantum AI”.

“Today I want to present our new project together with Elon Musk. Quantum AI is the world’s first quantum computing software developed by my team and Elon’s team with a 94% success rate,” the morphed voice says. It further urged people to join “Quantum AI”, claiming they can earn up to “$3,000 on their first working day”.

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The perpetrators have used a video from a conversation held during Business Today’s Mindrush event where the business tycoon shared his insights on the Indian economy. As per MoneyControl, the giveaway in the video is Murthy’s English accent which is not the same as the one in deepfake video.

Another video that was used was actually shot during Murthy's speech in the Moneycontrol Startup Conclave held on July 7 in Bengaluru. He was interviewed by his son Rohan Murty. During the candid conversation on a range of topics, nowhere did Murthy mention anything on artificial intelligence, says Moneycontrol. The publication further mentions that the fake video missed out the lip sync of Narayana Murthy giving it away as fake.