The identity of an Indian woman was recently stolen to create a viral instagram sensation, “Babydoll Archi”, which accumulated 1.4 million followers in just days with explicit content.
“Babydoll Archi” exploded in the scene with a series of viral moments, including a seductive dance in a red sari to the Romanian song, give me a GRR, and a provocative photo with the American adult film star Kendra Lust.
The sudden increase in popularity led to “Babydoll Archi” trends in Google, with innumerable pages of fans and memes flooding the Internet.
However, after an incident investigation, the authorities revealed that the person behind the online person was not a real woman, but the stolen identity of a pseudonymy, Sanchi, the BBC reported.
The truth was revealed after Sanchi’s brother complained to the police. Pratim Bora, Sanchi’s ex -boyfriend, was arrested for his participation.
The senior police officer Sizal Agawal, head of the investigation, told the BBC that Sanchi and Bora fell and the similarity of the one who created was to obtain “pure revenge” about it.
Bora, who is a mechanical and enthusiastic engineer of the AI, used Sanchi personal photos to create the profile, said Agarwal, added that he was put in custody and has not yet made any statement.
Deepfake’s story was created in 2020, and the first publications were his real photos that had been transformed, said Agarwal.
“As time passed, Bora used tools such as Chatgpt and Dzine to create a version of AI. He then populated the mango with Deepfake photos and videos.”
The account began to win traction and attention at the beginning of this year.
Sanchi is out of social networks, and learned about the publications once the main media outlined Babydoll Archi as “an influencer.” His family was blocked from this account. They also realized only once he went viral.
The complaint with the police filed by Sanchi’s brother on July 11 arrived with photos and videos as evidence, but did not appoint anyone as responsible.
“Babydoll Archi” was not an unknown name for the police. Agwal said they had also seen media reports and comments speculating that she was generated by AI, but there had been no suggestion that it was based on a real person.
Police worked with Instagram, asking for the information from the account creator.
“Once we received information from Instagram, we asked Sanchi if she knew Pratim Bora. Once she confirmed, we tracked her address in the neighboring district of Tensukia. We arrest him on the night of July 12.”
Police “confiscated their laptop, mobile phones and hard drives and banking documents since the account had monetized,” said Agarwal.
“The account had 3,000 subscriptions in Linktree, and we believe he had won 1 million rupees. We believe he won 300,000 rupees in just five days before his arrest,” he added.
Sanchi is “extremely distressed, but now she and her family are receiving advice and are doing better,” according to Agarwal. She expresses the importance of acting early, saying: “But if we had acted before, we could have avoided giving so much traction.”
