Bollywood star, Rashmika Mandanna has spoken out against ‘deepfake’ videos after footage emerged of her face on the body of a OnlyFans model, Zara Patel
An actress has spoken out about the "extremely scary" experience of seeing her face on the body of an adult model in a viral video shared online.
Popular Indian star Rashmika Mandanna was supposedly seen entering an elevator in the short clip donning a low cut bodysuit — but all is not as it seemed. It turns out the busty body, seen in the clip actually belongs to OnlyFans model Zara Patel.
The racy British-Indian, who posts on the subscription site as Princess Zara, was only visible in the first frame of the six-second video that was made with artificial intelligence. But her face became that of the the 27-year-old Bollywood star — who has 39 million Instagram followers — as she stepped into the lift, looking extremely realistic.
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The video has since gone viral online, prompting the actress to speak out against the "extremely scary" impact of "deepfakes". She wrote on Twitter: "I feel really hurt to share this and have to talk about the deepfake video of me being spread online.
"Something like this is honestly extremely scary, not only for me, but also for each one of us who today is vulnerable to so much harm because of how technology is being misused. But if this happened to me when I was in school or college, I genuinely can’t imagine how I could ever tackle this. We need to address this as a community and with urgency before more of us are affected by identity theft."
Zara Patel has also spoken out against the incident as she took to Instagram claiming she is "disturbed" by it and that she "fears for the future of women and girls". She wrote: " Hi all, it has come to my attention that someone created a deepfake video using my body and a popular Bollywood actress’s face.
"I had no involvement with the deepfake video and I’m deeply disturbed and upset by what is happening. I worry about the future of women and girls who now have to fear even more about putting themselves on social media. Please take a step back and fact-check what you see on the internet. Not everything on the internet is real (sic)."
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Journalists in India are now calling for more regulation of the use of AI to tackle the creation of deepfakes. Abhishek Kumar, a journalist from India, tracked down the fake video’s origin and called for new “legal and regulatory” measures to stop people's images being stolen.
He said: "There is an urgent need for a legal and regulatory framework to deal with deepfake in India. You might have seen this viral video of actor Rashmika Mandanna on Instagram. But wait, this is a deepfake video of Zara Patel."
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