India, April 3 -- The growing influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has now extended to political warfare, with Karnataka's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) deploying AI-generated content to criticize the Congress-led state government over rising prices. Capitalizing on viral trends, the BJP has used popular AI-generated Ghibli-style images to launch an offensive against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his administration.

As protests over price hikes gain momentum, the BJP's social media accounts have actively targeted the Congress government. In a recent post on X, the party mocked Siddaramaiah by prompting an AI tool to generate an image depicting the Karnataka Chief Minister holding an empty coconut shell. The post, captioned "AI Prom...