A morphed video of rashmika mandanna has gone viral. On Sunday, a deepfake video of the pushpa star surfaced online. In the unverified video, the woman with Rashmika’s face was seen getting into a lift, wearing a fitted outfit. The video instantly went viral and a few social media users came forward to clarify that the video has been deepfaked.
Amitabh Bachchan, who has worked with rashmika in Goodbye, retweeted the X post and urged for a legal action to be taken against such theft. “Yes this is a strong case for legal,” he wrote.
A journalist came forward and confirmed that the video was fake. “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 actress rashmika mandanna on Instagram. But wait, this is a deepfake video of Zara Patel,” he wrote on X. “From a deepfake POV, the viral video is perfect enough for ordinary social media users to fall for it. But if you watch the video carefully, you can see at (0:01) that when rashmika (deepfake) was entering the lift, suddenly her face changes from the other girl to rashmika,” he added.
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