Ahead of India's 2024 elections, some politicians are using voice cloning tools to send personalized messages and AI songs featuring Modi are gaining traction
my latest for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... Sagar Vishnoi / @sagarvishnoi : Got quoted in @restofworld on how AI is changing Indian politics. Over last few weeks, Modi's digitally rendered ...
Creators from India's hinterland are going viral on YouTube Shorts and running into copyright issues for “fact channels” that add context to other users' videos
A new generation of creators found success on YouTube Shorts. Now, YouTube is after them for violating its community guidelines. Tweets: @restofworld , @nilchristopher , @restofworld , @restofworld ,...
A hacktivist claims DALL-E-like Craiyon, formerly DALL-E mini, generated portraits of brown-skinned women in saris almost every time he ran a blank request
The images represent a glitch in the system that even its creator can't explain. — Like most people who are extremely online … Tweets: @mtrc , @nilchristopher , @sub8u , @flitteronfraud , and @anupk...
A look at Watchdog, a Sri Lanka-based research collective that built a fact-checking app and uses open source data to investigate the country's ongoing crises
From protests to power cuts, Watchdog uses open source research to investigate Sri Lanka's ongoing political and economic crisis. Tweets: @sarahbellelin , @aishnazim , @nilchristopher , @vickiturk , @...
Koo, the Indian microblogging app that has positioned itself as a government-friendly alternative to Twitter in India, is taking a similar approach in Nigeria
Rest of World : Tweets: @anirvan , @architmeta , @peterguest , @cengizyar , @nilchristopher , @iatalkspace , @yinkawrites , and @evelyndouek Tweets: Anirvan Chatterjee / @anirvan : “Just under a week...
Profile of Praveen Khandelwal, leader of a network of ~80M SMBs in India with deep ties to Modi, who evokes British colonial looting in his fight against Amazon
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World : Tweets: @nilchristopher , @nilchristopher , @caitindia , @restofworld , and @johnwilson Tweets: Nilesh Christopher / @nilchristopher : Meet the Indian merchant wa...
As COVID surges in India, online crowdsourcing and social media have become essential for sharing critical public health information, like ICU bed availability
With little state resources, citizen-led online initiatives are helping people find everything from oxygen to ICU beds. Tweets: @lmatsakis , @restofworld , @nilchristopher , @_meher , @restofworld , @...
Interview with founder of Koo, a microblogging service for regional language speakers in India that recently passed 3M users, fueled in large part by Modi's BJP
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @evelyndouek , @ndcnn , @marklittlenews , @anupkaphle , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @bibhasdn , @restofworld , @cengizyar , @leomschwartz ...
Interview with founder of Koo, a microblogging service for regional language speakers in India that recently passed 3M users, fueled in large part by Modi's BJP
Aprameya Radhakrishna made Koo for local-language speakers. Overnight, Hindu nationalists drove its success. — • BANGALORE, INDIA Tweets: @marklittlenews , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @cengizyar ,...
Hyderabad, with 500K+ CCTV cameras, has become India's most surveilled city and a test bed for AI-based visual surveillance tech for the rest of the country
Hyderabad's IT industry brought jobs and growth to the city. Critics now say the same technology is being used to watch the moves of every citizen Tweets: @eggopolis , @codastory , @varshaabansal , @...