After deepfake video featuring Rashmika Mandanna goes viral, the real woman in the video Zara Patel reacts: ‘I had no involvement with…’

Rashmika Mandanna, on Monday, strongly reacted against a viral deepfake video where her face has been superimposed onto the body of another woman. The woman is recognised as British Indian social media personality Zara Patel, and she’s taken to social media to share a statement, where she said that she had no involvement in the controversy and that she’s “deeply upset by what’s happening”.

Taking to Instagram story, Zara wrote, “Hi all, it has come to my attention that someone created a deepfake video using my body and a popular Bollywood actress’s face. I had no involvement with the deepfake video, and I’m deeply disturbed and upset by what is happening. I worry about the future of women and girls who now have to fear even more about putting themselves on social media. Please take a step back and fact-check what you see on the internet. Not everything on the internet is real. I’m deeply upset by what is happening.”

Zara Patel on Rashmika Mandanna deepfake video. (Photo: Zara Patel/ Instagram)

The original video features Zara Patel dressed in a black workout one-piece dress inside an elevator. In the viral video, Zara’s face has been edited using artificial intelligence (AI) to resemble Rashmika.

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Rashmika Mandanna, reacting to this deepfake video going viral on the internet, has written, “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.”

Actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Mrunal Thakur, Naga Chaitanya, Chinmayi Sripaada among have come forward in support of Rashmika and to talk about the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI).

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