Misuse Of AI: Deepfake Images And Women: A New Form Of Cyber Victimization
- IJLLR Journal
- Jun 28
- 1 min read
Supriya Rani, Amity Law School
ABSTRACT
With the rise of AI, a growing array of new risks is emerging that disproportionately impacts women, one such being the misuse of deepfakes. Digital content can be manipulated even with sophisticated AI methods, such as machine-learning models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), to superimpose an individual's likeness onto fabricated images and videos, even if they are of a sexually explicit or misleading nature, without their awareness or consent. These practices have led to the development of new ways of cyber victimisation that pose important legal and ethical issues. In this paper, the author looks at the doctrinal aspects of the harms caused by deepfakes and assesses how the current Indian legal regime is able to meet such threats. It examines the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and constitutional protections, as provided in Indian law. The study also places the Indian legal response in the wider international context by looking at the international legislative and regulatory developments in the European Union and the United States. The paper also examines some of major concerns surrounding the evidence standards, the duty of intermediate platforms and the constitutionality of privacy, dignity and personal autonomy. It recommends a suite of doctrinal and legislative proposals to bolster the legal response to cyber victimisation using deepfakes and improve the protection of victims.
Keywords: Deepfakes, Cyber Victimization, Artificial Intelligence, Women's Rights, Information Technology Law.
