India, Oct. 5 -- Actor Janhvi Kapoor debuted in Telugu cinema with the 2024 film Devara: Part 1, directed by Koratala Siva. Two years later, she found objectionable AI-morphed videos of herself from the song Chuttamalle circulating online. After she and her co-star condemned the video's circulation, as did other celebrities from the Telugu film industry, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma chimed in. He stated that the focus should have been on catching the perpetrator rather than increasing the video's visibility.

Without naming Janhvi, RGV wrote in an X (formerly Twitter) post how celebrities only managed to bring more visibility to the AI video. "The only thing all the celebrities succeeded in, is to publicise and thereby make crores and crores...