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The real war behind unreal deceptive images
The Free Press Journal - Mumbai
|November 05, 2025
“Deepfakes and synthetic media are unreal, but the battle in the mind and the damage to the body are real.” We live in an age where truth is constantly rewritten by technology. Every scroll, swipe, and click carries light and darkness. The same digital tools that connect the world are now used to deceive it.
Deepfakes are the latest face of deception. The term refers to synthetic media created using artificial intelligence. Through machine learning, thousands of images and videos can be analyzed to replicate a person's voice, expressions, and gestures, producing highly realistic yet fabricated videos—a dangerous blend of technical precision and psychological manipulation.
The explosion of information and AI has created a synthetic reality, fertile ground for misinformation and disinformation. The Mahabharata offers an ancient example: the false news of Ashwatthama’s death altered the course of the war. Today, technology turns single lies into millions of digital illusions, spreading faster than truth.
This story is from the November 05, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal - Mumbai.
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