MUMBAI: A day after cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar flagged a deepfake video of him, an FIR was registered on Tuesday against a gaming website and a Facebook page.
The manipulated video had showed a fake Tendulkar claiming that he and his daughter, Sara, had won large sums of money by playing a certain online game. The owners of the site and the Facebook page have not been identified yet.
The FIR was registered by west region cyber police based on a complaint by Tendulkar’s personal assistant, Ramesh Pardhe, 52. In his complaint, Pardhe said he found that an old interview that Tendulkar gave to a media executive that was accessible on YouTube had been edited and posted on a Facebook page, titled Hurma. He said the video that used deepfake technology to mimic Tendulkar’s gestures and voice was also posted on a gaming website, Skyward Aviator Quest.