Manufacturing Reality: How AI Is Rewriting India’s Election Playbook

“India’s political parties have used AI to create fake audio, propaganda images, and parodies,” she writes in her research paper, Deep Fakes, Deeper Impacts: AI’s Role in the 2024 Indian General Election and Beyond. “At the same time, AI has enabled campaigns to reach wider audiences by generating content in multiple languages and dialects, spreading both accurate information and misinformation.”