New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh took to X, tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reposting a video clip of the President of the United States from another account. “See, what your dear friend Donald Trump thinks of India and Indians,” he wrote.
However, he seemed to have realised soon after that the video was AI-generated, as pointed out by several users on the social media platform. The post has now been deleted.
Singh was reacting to a post by another X user, who had claimed that Trump had made “disrespectful comments” on Indians. The clip visibly carried text which read “Faux News Channel” and “Sobering Satire”.
In his post, Singh had written: “Would you please react? If you can’t, shouldn’t your Minister for Foreign Affairs @DrSJaishankar protest to what POTUS calls India the ‘most poisonous country in the world’.”
The AI-generated clip, which was reposted by Singh, had also been shared by other X accounts. A purported version of it is available on a YouTube channel called ‘Sobering Satire’. In the clip, the AI-generated “Trump” responds to a question by a reporter at a press conference on a “new customer service bill”.
The voice can be heard saying that multi-million dollar companies can no longer hide behind email-only customer service and will require phone numbers that customers can call on as part of an executive order, adding that companies will be hiring “proper English-speaking customer service representatives” and not “foreigners with thick accents that you can’t understand”.
“No more Indians taking your calls from India. Won’t that be nice?” it says, adding that they waste a lot of time, ending up frustrating the customers.
In the clip, “Trump” also adds that Americans need the jobs that are given to Indians for “pennies and dollars, like slaves”, suggesting that Indians should be given the job “to clean up the trash in their country”, which is in “every square mile of India and they don’t care”.
“They even dump loads of trash and plastic into rivers, and that affects the entire world ecosystem.”
The voice then adds that “so many countries get a pass” for treating the environment poorly, while only white people get targeted. “Give me a break. We are pulling off funding from India until they clean it all up… so they can clean up their poisonous country, and then maybe we will give them some American work.”
Responding to the clip shared by an X user, another user wrote: “First of all the video is AI generated considering the voice and the type of words used. It won’t be used by anyone related to international relations… so the scope of any disrespect is only what the owner of the account wants to portray, not what the president thinks or says.”
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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Digvijaya Singh is a fool.
With age people mature and become wise. But the prerequisite is that the person should have common sense and a tinge of intelligence. Mr. Singh seems to have had none to begin with.