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The Uttar Pradesh government is cracking down on deepfake media and filtering hundreds of posts across social media, blogs and microsites in a bid to root out misinformation in the run-up to the consecration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on Monday, officials in the know said.. Deepfakes or synthetic media that has been digitally manipulated including posts spreading incorrect information about the premises, ceremonial preparations and security systems are being actively reported to the policy teams of Meta as well as to X..
"The government is actively undertaking AI-enabled sentiment analysis of social media activity and has found that nearly 30-40% of posts related to the event are spreading hate speech through foreign actors," a person close to the matter told ET...
The UP Police Special Task Force and the UP-Intelligence unit is using AI to monitor both on-ground security and online activity with an aim to prevent the spread of hate speech or incitement of communal harm during the mega event...
"Besides on-ground security, online safety is also important to prevent communal unrest which has previously blown up in places like Gurgaon and Nuh District solely due to social media," said one person cited above noting that "Intelligence unit shall be on their toes during the D-day."..
"Our video-analytics AI tool Jarvis can identify suspicious or violent activities among the crowd and flag criminals by matching with the government's database of 800,000 criminals which we had digitised back in 2018," said Atul Rai, founder, Staqu Technologies..
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