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Deepfakes of Bollywood actors and dead politicians circulate during India's 2024 general election

India's 2024 election saw fabricated videos of Aamir Khan and Ranveer Singh criticising the government and AI resurrections of deceased leaders campaigning, the largest-scale use of deepfakes in an election to that point.

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