After Rashmika & Katrina, Rumoured Couple Shubman And Sara Tendulkar Become Victims Of Deepfake

In the last few months, AI-generated Deepfake content has been flooding the internet at an alarming rate. Unfortunately, it wasn’t being taken seriously until a celebrity had to go through it. Soon after a video of influencer Zara Patel being morphed with actress Rashmika Mandanna’s face went viral on the internet, the corpse came alive.

The matter escalated within a few hours making everyone including popular celebrities talk about it.

Just a day after, another morphed picture of actress Katrina Kaif from Tiger 3 went viral which was totally different from the original one. The Indian government was quick to issue several notices against such AI-generated misleading content on the internet and issued advisory underlining repercussions for the culprit.

Unfortunately, netizens have again made another deepfake image viral and this time rumoured couple Shubman Gill and Sara Tendulkar are the target.

In the viral picture, Sara can be seen hugging the batsman as they smile ear to ear for the camera. The image was first shared by a Twitter user named @pandey7829 who captioned it, “Sara Tendulkar confirmed that She is dating Shubman Gill.” This fueled massive confusion on the internet.

However, it was photoshopped and the original image featured Sara’s brother Arjun Tendulkar.

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How did Rashmika react to her deepfake video going viral?

An excerpt of the actress’ long note read, “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.”