Bollywood couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai have filed separate lawsuits in the Delhi High Court against YouTube and its parent company Google. According to Reuters, the star duo is seeking Rs 4 crore in damages along with a permanent injunction to prevent YouTube from hosting or monetising any content that misrepresents them, misuses their voices, or circulates AI-generated deepfake videos.
The petitions also request the court to direct Google to implement safeguards to ensure that manipulated content is not used to train other artificial intelligence platforms. Filed on September 6, the lawsuit states: “Such content being used to train AI models has the potential to multiply the instances of infringing use—first being uploaded on YouTube and viewed by the public, and then als