Matthew Busch is a filmmaker and journalist currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Documentary Film at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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Matthew Busch is a filmmaker and journalist currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Documentary Film at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Over the last 10 years his work across mediums has documented personal stories and issues related to the environment, mental health and migration in the U.S. and around the world for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Southern Cultures Magazine and Texas Monthly. In addition to studying journalism at the University of Missouri and the Danish School of Media and Journalism, in 2017 Matthew was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Grant to India. Matthew was also a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow with The Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley.
"The Indian Deepfaker," is set in Pushkar, Rajasthan, where an unlikely individual has been creating AI tools and deepfake videos for political campaigns ahead of India's ongoing national Lok Sabha elections. In a country where nearly a billion people are registered to vote, the quickly advancing technology of artificial intelligence and relatively easy-to-use online tools have allowed almost anyone with time and a bit of computer knowledge to create content that is getting harder and harder to determine if it is real or fake. In this film we meet The Indian Deepfaker (as he calls himself) who has been creating AI generated content for politicians this election cycle, but holds strong views on the ethics of it all, and wonders what the future will hold for AI and what it will mean for our reality.
