Rashmika Fake Video: Celebs Extremely Angry

Celebs come in support of Rashmika. Rashmika got a huge shock yesterday when her morphed video generated by AI went viral on social media. She was seen coming out of the bathroom and this triggered anry reactions from celebrities. Already Big B Amitabh Bachchan demanded stringent action against the criminals.

Telangana CM KCR's daughter Kavitha also came ins support of Rashmika and demanded strong action. Union IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar promised tough action against the criminals. Now, Tollywood celebs Sai Dharam Tej, Naga Chaitanya, Mrunal Thakur and Chinmayi Sripada came in support of Rashmika.

Here is how they reacted over the entire controversy.

Sai Dharam Tej

Disheartening & Disgusting.It feels so painful understanding what one must be going through being a victim of such ill use of progressing technology.The thought of what mental havoc this technology mislead could cause in lives of normal girls is beyond terrifying.The need of the hour is awareness and strict laws.

Naga Chaitanya

"It’s truly disheartening to see how technology is being misused and the thought of what this can progress to in the future is even scarier. Action has to be taken and some kind of law has to be enforced to protect people who have and will be a victim to this. Strength to you."

Mrunal Thakur

"Shame on people who resort to such things, it shows that there is no conscience left at all in such people. Thank you @Rashmika_mandanna for speaking up, for addressing this issue that so far we have seen glimpses of but a lot of us chose to remain silent. Everyday there are morphed, edited videos of female actors floating around on internet zooming into inappropriate body parts. Where are we heading as a community, as a society? We may be actresses in the "limelight" but at the end of the day each one of us are human. Why aren't we talking about it? Don't remain silent, now is not the time".

Chinmayi Sripada

“Several months ago, a video of one of our most favourite actors in an AI avatar performed to Kaavaalaa from Jailer released - only it wasn’t her. It was a Deep Fake. Nobody knows for sure whether Ms Simran had consented in advance to her likeness to be used in the Deep Fake AI rendering of Kaavaalaa. She shared it on her social media pages as well.”

She continued, "Now a deepfake Rashmika video surfaces and I just saw her Instagram story where she genuinely looks disturbed - In a country where women’s bodies are exploited everyday, Deep Fake is going to be the next weapon they use to target and harass and blackmail girls to extort, blackmail and rape; Their clueless families in one small village or town is not going to understand when the so called maanam / or honour is at stake. Loan apps harass women borrowers with photoshopped images of their faces over porn photos and they can't deal with that. But a Deep Fake is going to be tougher for the usual untrained eye to spot. Everyone doesn’t have high-res displays. I truly hope there is a nationwide awareness campaign that can kickstart urgently to educate the general public about the dangers of deepfakes for girls and to report incidents instead of taking matters into their own hands."