Bharatiya Janata Party employed Artificial Intelligence and deepfakes during the recent Delhi election campaign, American digital publication Vice reported on Tuesday. Deepfakes, derived from deep learning and fake, are synthetic, doctored media like videos, in which a person from an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness or made to mimic someone else's actions.

The report said that on February 7, just one day before Delhi voted, two videos of the BJP's chief ministerial candidate Manoj Tiwari criticising the Arvind Kejriwal government went viral on WhatsApp. It said one video had Tiwari speaking in English and the other was him speaking in Haryanvi. "[Kejriwal] cheated us on the basis of promises. But now Delhi has a chance to change it all. Press the lotus button on February 8 to form the Modi-led government," he was seen telling in the video.