Abstract

Videos have suddenly become a common affair in the present day which has gained prominence all of a sudden Interestingly and sadly many well known celebrities have been caught in this fiasco. During the last general elections in India, the Home Minister’s speech was edited and was circulated in all social media platforms which created a furore among the netizens especially who had heard him in one of his rallies. In the same way, there are many instances where high profile celebrities in the movie and media world have been regularly been victimized by the deepfake videos. One such example is the world famous movie star, Priyanka Chopra, who had once admitted that she was a victim of deepfake when she was shown disclosing her annual income in a particular video. “Sometimes it becomes very scary”, as another Bollywood actor, Ms. Rashmika Mandana calls it. Thus we analyze here in this chapter what is deepfake and how dangerous it is for gender violence. We shall also discuss some victims of deepfake and the impact it has caused on them.