India, Oct. 3 -- As artificial intelligence (AI) tools make it easier to create convincing fake videos, cloned voices, and manipulated images, distinguishing genuine content from fabricated material is becoming increasingly difficult. Deepfakes are being used for impersonation, fraud, extortion, and reputational harm, posing fresh challenges for law enforcement agencies as well as ordinary users of social media.
Investigating such content involves more than simply looking for visual glitches. Police must examine how a file was created or modified, trace how it circulated, and establish whether other evidence supports the content. The task becomes more complicated when images and videos are compressed, forwarded or screen-recorded, strippin...