Bollywood actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan have approached the Delhi High Court with separate petitions against YouTube and its parent company Google. The move comes after the court granted them protection of their personality and publicity rights.

According to TOI, the couple is seeking damages worth $450,000 (around Rs 4 crore). They are also asking for a permanent ban on YouTube from hosting or monetising any content that misrepresents them or uses their voices, likeness or images in AI-generated deepfake material.

In their September 6 filing, the actors flagged how such content could reportedly be used to train artificial intelligence systems, multiplying instances of misuse. “Such content being used to train AI models has the potential to multiply the instance

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