Deepfakes Mislead by Falsely Suggesting Collaboration Between Narayana Murthy and Elon Musk

Two viral videos of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy are doing the rounds on various platforms on the internet, but primarily on Facebook. In these videos, he can be seen promoting a new investment platform called Quantum AI in collaboration with billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. However, as you would have guessed, these are indeed deeply fake videos created to spread misinformation about the creators’ potential monetary gain.

The videos have now been taken down, but this comes at a time when Deepfake videos have become more common on the internet. Recently, videos of actors – including Rashmika Mandanna, Alia Bhatt and Kajol – were spotted on social media platforms defaming and causing undue humiliation.

“Today I want to present our new project together with Elon Musk. Quantum AI is the world’s first quantum computing software developed by my team and Elon’s team with a 94% success rate,” says the digitally altered voice of Narayan Murthy. The video further claims that people can earn up to “$3,000 in their first day of work.”

Now the big giveaway to fake the video is the movement of Narayana Murthy’s lips in the clip. Not only is it out of sync with the altered audio, but it looks unnatural. As reported by Moneycontrol, the video is not a pitch to potential investors, but from Moneycontrol’s Startup Conclave in Bengaluru, held on July 7.

Another video also promotes a fake Quantum AI platform, with Murthy saying, “Today I want to introduce a new project with a 94 percent success rate for Quantum AI. This is the world’s first quantum computing software developed by my team.” This is also a Deepfake video from Business Today’s Mindrush.

Narayana Murthy expressed concern about AI and Deepfakes

It should be noted that Narayana Murthy has already spoken about the dangers of deep counterfeiting and the impact of AI on the IT industry. “Deepfake is a problem, or even when the technology goes bad, it’s always a problem,” Murthy told Moneycontrol.

He added: “There are conferences around the world on how to mitigate the unwanted effect or effects of AI. And I’m sure there are many brilliant people working on it. So I’m more positive than negative about it.”