Bhubaneswar: Cyber Police personnel in Bhubaneswar have arrested another youth for creating and sharing objectionable artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content targeting Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Cha
ran Majhi on social media.
The accused, identified as Manoranjan Pradhan, is a resident under Bagedia police station limits in Odisha’s Angul district. He was apprehended following a Cyber Police investigation into the circulation of the online content.
Manoranjan allegedly used AI tools to morph and distort images of the chief minister, said ACP Suchismita Das. He shared the manipulated pictures, and used abusive and obscene language, on social media platforms to defame Majhi.
Police used technical evidence and digital tracking to identify the accused and take him into custody.
Two days earlier, Cyber Police had arrested a 22-year-old youth, a resident of Jagatpur area in Cuttack. He allegedly circulated AI-generated morphed and obscene content targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Odisha CM Majhi on social media, police said.