Earlier this year, when I saw Mukesh Ambani promoting someone's stock trading venture on my socials, I went aww... What a great man, I thought: despite being India’s richest, here he was, generously helping a poor sod make money in the stock market. How noble! How philanthropic! How utterly, magnificently… out of character! That’s the benefit of having a journalistic mind; delusions don’t last long. This one survived the duration of a Google search, as I discovered to my horror, not only was the video a deepfake, but it was also used to rob many, including a Bengaluru-based chartered accountant of Rs 23.20 lakh.

The irony hit me, India’s richest man had been digitally puppeteered to turn many poor.

Welcome to India in the age of Artificial Intelligence, where seeing is no longer believin

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