Karnataka man held for allegedly circulating deepfake nude photos of love interest and her friends

Belagavi: A 22-year-old jilted lover is w behind bars after he allegedly used AI-generated deepfake software to morph nude pictures of his love interest and her female friends and circulated on social media to avenge m after y rejected his advances. Belagavi police in a swift action cracked case in less than 24 hours and arrested accused.

accused, identified as Manthan Patil, manipulated girl, he was in attracted to and her two or friends photos by using a deepfake app, morphing it with nude ims, after she declined his proposal. He furr threatened his girlfriend with se edited photos, however girl remained steadfast and rejected his furr advances. Dejected and rattled, accused Manthan to avenge his insult, circulated morphed photos of girl and friends on social media.

Bheemashankar Guled, SP of Belagavi rural speaking to Republic said that " incident from Khanapur where accused, 22 year old Manthan Patil was in love with a girl and she was t responding to his love. Angered by this Manthan Patil warns her that she along with her friends will have to pay dearly for this. He created a fake profile in name of this girl on social media and uploaded morphed pictures of girl and her friends as y had t supported him to take his love forward. accused had morphed pictures of girls using a deep fake software which can edit photos and videos. He morphed ir faces with nude ims and uploaded nude pictures on social media. To create pressure on girl he loved he uploaded nude pictures of his friends from her fake social media profile."

victimized girls filed a police complaint at cyber police station leading to arrest of accused Manthan who was employed at a private company in Bengaluru. police in ir investigation have also learnt that several stills were compiled and a video was made after which it was uploaded on social media. use of se deep fake applications have created a ripple after actor Rashmika Mandanna's deep fake video was released.

Febin an ethical hacker speaking to Republic said that this trend of creating deep fake videos and ims is worrying as even artificial intelligence is t able to identify wher it is fake or t at least in preliminary analysis. 

government of India has already strict guidelines in place and such applications are blocked on all platforms both mobile and desktops but new applications like se are released on a day to day basis and y are able to get through firewall and install it. only solution is to make sure that social media profiles remain private and also re are multiple security layers before one can access it," added Febin an ethical hacker.