The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notices to Cockroach Janta Party convenor Abhijeet Dipke, and spokespersons Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, in a plea filed by a woman alleging that her morphed images with Prime Minister Narendra Modi were circulated during CJP protests.
“This is extraordinary position in which the matter is not of one lady; it is a matter about the Prime Minister of the country. In her petition, the woman had accused the CJP leaders of morphing and circulating her deepfake images. The plea sought to take down the fabricated pictures purportedly showing the woman’s morphed face alongside the Prime Minister. “During recent protests held by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, respondents No. “During the recent CJP protests at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, certain delinquent demonstrators and organisers unauthorisedly harvested my personal photograph. Using digital manipulation and Al face-swapping tools, they morphed my face directly onto an image alongside the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, fabricating a completely false, compromising, and sensationalized picture,” the FIR accessed by HT stated.
2 to 5 (CJP leaders) along with their active accomplices-unauthorisedly harvested the personal photograph of the petitioner and utilised Artificial Intelligence (AI) face-swapping tools to morph her face…” the plea stated, according to PTI news agency.
I will make sure that the Delhi Police is sensitive,” Justice Girish Kathpalia stated, according to Bar and Bench. The woman was being represented by advocate Umesh Chandra Sharma, who said that an FIR has already been registered in this regard, but no concrete steps were taken to fix accountability or to ensure the removal of the viral deepfakes.
