Indian gamer Payal Dhare filed a police complaint after a fake video of her spread online.

Deepfakes are acid on trust. Today it's an influencer, tomorrow it's a politician, and next week it's your cousin from Pune. In January 2024, even X temporarily blocked searches for Taylor Swift after a wave of synthetic abuse, and that still did not solve the problem. So please, don't pretend one FIR will fix a technology stack and an attention economy. Do you really want a world where a trending clip counts as proof? The hard part is incentives: platforms optimize for engagement, attackers optimize for humiliation. If every share is free, the cruelty scales. If sharing costs reputation or money, it slows. Build better defaults, clearer labels, and faster victim tools. Otherwise we keep running the same malware, just with new faces.

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