Amritsar police book case over AI-morphed video of Golden Temple

Following a complaint lodged by the Golden Temple management, the Amritsar police have registered an FIR against an unknown person for hurting Sikh sentiments by morphing videos of Darbar Sahib. In the complaint, lodged by Bhagwant Singh Dhangera, General Manager of Golden Temple, it was alleged that a miscreant with a social media page ‘Good Farmers’ had uploaded morphed videos of Darbar Sahib using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool, showing it collapsing in floodwaters. The complaint was submitted on August 13, and the police registered an FIR with the Cybercrime cell on August 14.

Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar has confirmed the registration of the FIR, adding that investigations are in progress to identify the miscreants behind uploading the AI-morphed video. Dhangera pointed out that the video was shared and viewed by people thousands of times, causing huge resentment among the Sikh community. He termed the incident unfortunate, adding that the AI technique has been repeatedly used in the recent past to tamper with pictures of the Sikh Gurus also. He urged the Police Commissioner to take stringent measures so that nobody could misuse AI technology in the future to hurt Sikh sentiments.