{"id":502413,"date":"2024-02-20T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=502413"},"modified":"2024-02-20T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:25:19","slug":"virat-kohli-deepfake-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/virat-kohli-deepfake-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli becomes victim of deepfake video, seen promoting betting app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Team India star player&nbsp;Virat Kohli, is the&nbsp;recent celebrity to be duped by artificial intelligence and deepfake technology. A video of him advertising an illegal&nbsp;betting app went viral&nbsp;on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to produce a deepfake advertisement, Kohli&#8217;s AI-generated voice has been combined with morphed&nbsp;footage from some of his previous videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, a video of Kohli saying he earned a\u00a0large returns on a low-key\u00a0investment through a betting app went viral on social media. The advertisement also features footage of a popular\u00a0news anchor Anjana Om Kashyap, to make it more authentic. The advertisement portrays Kohli as a guest on a live news show, explaining to viewers how they can also earn profit from the betting app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0947 \u0938\u091a \u092e\u0947\u0902 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anjanaomkashyap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@anjanaomkashyap<\/a> \u092e\u0948\u092e \u0914\u0930 \u0935\u093f\u0930\u093e\u091f \u0915\u094b\u0939\u0932\u0940 \u0939\u0948\u0902? \u092f\u093e \u092b\u093f\u0930 \u092f\u0939 AI \u0915\u093e \u0915\u092e\u093e\u0932 \u0939\u0948?<br><br>\u0905\u0917\u0930 \u092f\u0939 AI \u0915\u092e\u093e\u0932 \u0939\u0948 \u0924\u094b \u092c\u0947\u0939\u0926 \u0916\u0924\u0930\u0928\u093e\u0915 \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u0907\u0924\u0928\u093e \u092e\u093f\u0938\u092f\u0942\u091c? \u0905\u0917\u0930 \u0930\u093f\u092f\u0932 \u0939\u0948 \u0924\u094b \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u092c\u093e\u0924 \u0939\u0940 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902\u0964 \u0915\u093f\u0938\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u091c\u093e\u0928\u0915\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0939\u094b \u0924\u094b \u092c\u0924\u093e\u090f\u0901\u0964<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imVkohli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q5RnDE3UPr\">pic.twitter.com\/Q5RnDE3UPr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shubham Shukla (@ShubhamShuklaMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShubhamShuklaMP\/status\/1759093779410350504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans on social media have been made aware of the deceptive deepfake video, and many have flagged it to make sure others don&#8217;t fall for it. In the advertisement, Kohli is shown profiting Rs 81,000 on a little Rs 1,000 investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time when any celebrity has become the victim of deepfake video. Earlier, Sachin Tendulkar\u2019s video also went viral, in which he was seen endorsing a gaming app. It was a digitally edited movie with the former batter&#8217;s voice, pretending to be him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of that deepfake was to create the impression that Tendulkar and his daughter Sara had won a huge amount of money by taking part in a particular online game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sachin himself acknowledged the video&nbsp;as fraudulent and issued a warning on social media regarding these kinds of unethical behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Kohli is not playing in India&#8217;s current home Test series against England, therefore he is not available for the Indian team at this time. However, it was anticipated that the star batter would play in the next three Test matches after initially withdrawing from the first two due to personal issues. Kohli, who is still with his family, later withdrew from the entire five-match series, citing personal reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deepfake video of  Virat Kohli has gone viral on social media where he can be seen promoting an illegal betting app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":502415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,6,110599],"tags":[161126,2024,162058],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20155437\/img_192351_viratkohli-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502413"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=502413"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=502413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->