VIJAYAWADA: Home Minister Vangarapudi Anitha on Tuesday slammed the YSRCP leadership and its cadres for disseminating fabricated AI videos and other manipulated narrations that are being used to spread misinformation and destabilize security.
Anitha attended the inauguration of the new Tulur police sub-station office as the guest of honor on Tuesday. He said anti-social elements are using AI tools to create fake videos and disseminate them on social media platforms to cause confusion and falsely portray incidents in the Associated Press.
“Many people are being harassed through fabricated videos. Associated Press police are effectively countering these attempts,” she said, stressing that technological intervention is now essential to stop the spread of falsehoods. She pointed to a recent example in which a video from Uttar Pradesh of people throwing stones at trucks was passed off as an incident by political opponents for the Associated Press.
Anitha said Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had directed police to use technology to identify and neutralize false content before it spreads.
Highlighting the government’s efforts to strengthen the force, Anitha said that DGP Harish Kumar Gupta is working to strengthen police capacity and the government will provide all facilities.
While accusing the previous YSRCP government of poor job performance, she cited 6,100 constable posts created under the coalition, announced an insurance policy of Rs 1,000 crore for police personnel and a minimum payment of Rs 1,500,000 to the families of the deceased.
