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Chief Justice of India-designate, Justice Surya Kant, connected Saturday (November 8, 2025) said the incessant and malicious trolling of women journalists by misusing their backstage information and aft fabricating incriminating contented against them could not beryllium normalised arsenic the “inevitable consequence” of online discourse.
Justice Kant, speaking astatine an Indian Women’s Press Corps event, was referring to the intensive broadside of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that could beryllium utilized to origin carnal and intelligence harm by manipulating images.
“These perpetrators, alternatively of engaging with their existent enactment oregon the opinions expressed by women journalists, utilise these methods of ‘online violence’ to belittle, induce fear, and discredit them professionally. This benignant of integer maltreatment not lone undermines the assurance and information of women journalists but besides threatens property state by stifling the diverseness and nuance of nationalist discourse,” Justice Kant said.
Justice Kant said tools similar AI were weaponised to circulate mendacious and malicious narratives, which were aboriginal sensationalised.
“Often, the manipulated contented persists online indefinitely, agelong aft the communicative has retreated from the quality cycle, making the harm imperishable and devastating for those involved. As a liable democracy, we cannot spend to normalise oregon tolerate specified happenings arsenic an ‘inevitable consequence’ of online discourse,” the Supreme Court justice said.
