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During the Southeast Asian country's presidential campaign, deepfakes became a prominent tool to spread misinformation both harmful and helpful to candidates.

Indonesian Prabowo Subianto Deepfake Scam Exposed

Indonesian Deepfake Scam Exploiting Prabowo Subianto

During the Southeast Asian country's presidential campaign, deepfakes became a prominent tool to spread misinformation both harmful and helpful to candidates.

Wearing a traditional Indonesian black hat and shirt, President Prabowo Subianto speaks to the camera in an Instagram video, asking his people how he can help them after his election last year.
"Who hasn't received aid from me? What are your needs right now?" Prabowo appears to ask viewers in the clip posted in November. But while the Indonesian leader's mouth moves and his eyes blink, the words he utters are part of a fraudulent deepfake scam uncovered by police last month that has swindled Indonesians across 20 provinces.
Those ensnared by the message were asked to contact a WhatsApp number and hand over between 250,000 and one million rupiah ($15-$60) as an "administrative fee" to get aid that never materialised.
Since last year's Indonesian election, experts have warned of a tidal wave of deepfakes -- audio, images and video appearing to come from a known person but which are in fact the work of scammers using artificial intelligence tools. And victims say the hoaxes are so sophisticated they leave others vulnerable to being conned too.
"People should be more careful. Don't be easily fooled by the lure of prizes," said Aryani, 56, who handed over 200,000 rupiah to fraudsters after seeing a deepfake video of a prominent Indonesian businessman.
"I need money, but instead I'm asked to send money. They even made video calls with me, as if I were talking directly to them."
During the Southeast Asian country's presidential campaign, deepfakes became a prominent tool to spread misinformation both harmful and helpful to candidates.
But now that technology has fallen into the hands of criminals looking to make cold, hard cash.
Wide circulation AFP's fact-checkers found the account behind the Prabowo clip has posted dozens of similar videos appearing to show various high-profile figures, including Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
Those videos also promote the bogus financial aid.
Police arrested a suspect who pocketed 65 million rupiah ($4,000) from the scam, Himawan Bayu Aji, director of the Indonesian National Cyber Crime Unit told reporters in February.
He said officers detained a second person involved in another scam that also used deepfake technology, without disclosing the amount raised.
AFP Fact Check's investigation found the spread of such videos had a much wider reach than the two accounts that police announced.
Deepfake videos of the president, a popular ex-general, were still circulating on social media after the arrests, including dozens on TikTok with the hashtag "Prabowo shares blessings".
At least 22 TikTok accounts were touting the same fraudulent scheme since Prabowo took office in October, AFP journalists found, with some appearing to take advantage of his recent rise to the presidency.
One account with more than 77,000 followers racked up 7.5 million views on a fabricated video of Prabowo apparently doling out financial assistance.
Another account with thousands of followers has shared 100 videos since January alone, the majority featuring deepfake videos of the president offering cash.
TikTok said it had removed one of the deepfake scam videos and the associated account, adding it would continue to remove any that violated the platform's community guidelines, which prohibit misleading posts.
Facebook parent Meta did not respond to AFP's request for comment.
AFP, along with more than 100 other fact-checking organisations, is paid by TikTok and Meta to verify social media posts that potentially contain false information.
More accessible Aribowo Sasmito, a co-founder of Indonesian fact-checking organisation Mafindo, said his team were finding new deepfake scams every week because of their prolific spread online.
"We have started to see deepfake videos since last year as AI tools have become more accessible and affordable," he told AFP.
Schemes using deepfakes of prominent figures appear to be on the rise.&nbsp;
Tech billionaire Elon Musk and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are among a string of celebrities targeted in recent years by sophisticated impersonations to push cash scams.
Aribowo said his team of fact-checkers was working harder than ever to debunk these scams using the latest technology available to criminals.
"We noticed the quality of these videos has improved over time. It has become more difficult to distinguish between fake and real videos," he added.
"The challenge is the volume of these scams."
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The giveaways in the fake video of Narayana Murthy promoting a so-called investing platform “Quantum AI” are his english accent which is not the same as the one in deepfake video and the missed lip sync

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

<h2>The giveaways in the fake video of Narayana Murthy promoting a so-called investing platform &ldquo;Quantum AI&rdquo; are his english accent which is not the same as the one in deepfake video and the missed lip sync</h2>

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.
<h3>Deepfake Menace</h3>
The videos show Narayana Murthy promoting a so-called investing platform &ldquo;Quantum AI&rdquo;. 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 &ldquo;Quantum AI&rdquo;.
&ldquo;Today I want to present our new project together with Elon Musk. Quantum AI is the world&rsquo;s first quantum computing software developed by my team and Elon&rsquo;s team with a 94% success rate,&rdquo; the morphed voice says. It further urged people to join &ldquo;Quantum AI&rdquo;, claiming they can earn up to &ldquo;$3,000 on their first working day&rdquo;.
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The perpetrators have used a video from a conversation held during Business Today&rsquo;s Mindrush event where the business tycoon shared his insights on the Indian economy. As per MoneyControl, the giveaway in the video is Murthy&rsquo;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 &nbsp;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.

After raising deepfake garba video, PM Modi calls for global regulation of AI

Deepfake videos are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness.&nbsp;

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called for global regulation of artificial intelligence saying there were concerns about the negative use of the emerging technology.
"There are growing concerns across the world on the negative use of AI. India's thinking is clear, we have to work together on global regulation of AI," Modi said addressing the virtual summit of Leaders of G20 countries.
"We must understand the dangers posed by deepfakes to society and individuals and move forward," Modi said.
Earlier this month, interacting with journalists at BJP's 'Diwali Milan' programme, Modi had voiced concern over the issue of deepfakes.
"I watched my deepfake video in which I'm doing garba. But the reality is that I have not done garba after my school life. Someone made my deepfake video," the prime minister said.
However, a Mumbai-based businessman, who is a look-alike of the prime minister claimed that the video in question featured him playing garba and was not a deepfake of the prime minister.
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As India calls for global regulation of Artificial Intelligence, the IT Ministry has announced that new laws will soon be introduced to mitigate the creation of deepfakes.

India to act against AI-generated deepfakes, new laws to be introduced

As India calls for global regulation of Artificial Intelligence, the IT Ministry has announced that new laws will soon be introduced to mitigate the creation of deepfakes.

Terming deepfakes as a new threat to democracy, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday said that the government will come up with new regulations soon to tackle deepfakes.
The minister, who met social media platforms on the deepfake issue on Thursday, said that companies have agreed on the need for clear actionable work in areas such as detection, prevention, strengthening of reporting mechanism, and raising user awareness.
"We will start drafting regulation today itself, and within a short time we will have a new set of regulations for deepfakes ... this could be in the form of amending existing framework or bringing new rules, or new law," Vaishnaw told reporters.
Deepfakes have emerged as a new threat to democracy, the minister said.
"We will have our next meeting in the first week of December...that will be on follow-up action on today's decisions, and also on what should be included in the draft regulation," Vaishnaw said. Deepfakes refer to synthetic or doctored media that is digitally manipulated and altered to convincingly misrepresent or impersonate someone, using a form of artificial intelligence.
Recently, several 'deepfake' videos targeting leading actors went viral, sparking public outrage and raising concerns over the misuse of technology and tools for creating doctored content and fake narratives.
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Prime Minister Modi cautioned that deep fakes created by artificial intelligence can lead to a big crisis and stoke discontent in society

Congress retort to PM Modi: been warning about deep fakes since May 2014

Prime Minister Modi cautioned that deep fakes created by artificial intelligence can lead to a big crisis and stoke discontent in society

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned people over the misuse of artificial intelligence for creating 'deep fakes', the Congress on Friday said it has been flagging the issue since 2014 "The prime minister is warning the country now of deep fakes. This is exactly what we have been saying since May 2014," said AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh in a post in X.
Prime Minister Modi earlier in the day cautioned that deep fakes created by artificial intelligence can lead to a big crisis and stoke discontent in society, as he urged the media to raise awareness about its misuse and educate people.
He was speaking at the Diwali Milan programme at the BJP headquarters.

China regulates the use of deepfakes on 10th January

China regulates the use of deepfake technology 

China regulates the use of deepfakes on 10th January

China's government has recently put into effect new rules for the use of deepfake technology. The regulations mandate that businesses that use deepfake technology must verify the identities of their users and label deepfake content. The reasons behind this new rules are concerns over the potential harms of deepfake content, such as threats to national security and social stability. This is in line with the Chinese government's previous actions of regulating technology that may pose a risk to the stability or power of the Communist Party, and their recent efforts to exert control over digital industries.

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