With AI, the age of industrialised falsehood is coming to India

Summary

In an opinion piece, technology executive Aditya Vikram Kashyap warns that India's massive digital scale makes it especially vulnerable to 'industrialised' AI-driven disinformation, from deepfake political videos to fabricated financial announcements that could move markets. He calls for stronger 'truth infrastructure'—including watermarking of corporate disclosures, liability for platforms that amplify synthetic content, and better public digital literacy—to counter what he terms the 'disinformation dividend'.