India, Jan. 3 -- A 25-year-old man in Muzaffarpur's Bochaha was arrested on Friday on charges that he used artificial intelligence tools to create fake videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu and put them out on Instagram.

Muzaffarpur deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Himanshu Kumar, said the videos had been created in a manner that could mislead people into believing they were authentic and spread misinformation among the public. He claimed the primary objective of such AI-generated fake content is to create confusion among the general public.

Kumar said Pramod Kumar Raj of Bochaha area in Muzaffarpur was arrested around 7pm on Friday. The Instagram ID, jansuraajbochaha, which was used to release the vid...