India’s 2024 general election, the largest democratic exercise in the world with over 960 million eligible voters, is being transformed by the rise of AI intelligence and hyper-realistic deep fake content.  With this, a new generation of tech-savvy political operatives is leveraging AI to create synthetic media with political and commercial intent.  One of the most prominent figures in India’s emerging ‘deep fake industry’ is Divyendra Singh Jadoun, a 31-year-old self-styled “Indian Deep faker” who has quickly become a go-to provider for political campaigns. What started as a solo operation making Bollywood spoofs has evolved into a full-fledged synthetic media…