Dhaka, June 7 (IANS). In today’s era, people’s dependence on AI is increasing. However, there is also a rapid increase in crimes related to AI. A report on Sunday said that Bangladesh is witnessing an alarming increase in criminal trends caused by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Along with this, the number of AI users is also increasing rapidly.
According to the report of Presenza International Press Agency, according to experts, there is an urgent need to bring a complete national and global ‘AI policy’ or regulatory framework to prevent these bad effects and prevent institutional misuse.
The report said, “According to data from local fact-checking organization ‘Rumor Scanner’, 29 well-known women from the country’s showbiz industry were targeted through a total of 68 serious rumors and misinformation in 2025. The most worrying thing is that out of these 68 defamatory campaigns, 50 video content clearly used advanced AI technology.”
Many television studios and social media platforms are using AI to create content and these ‘deepfakes’ have become very difficult for ordinary people to distinguish from the truth.
The use of AI for image generation has become very popular among the youth and conversational chatbots like Copilot, MidJourney, DALL-E3, Sora 2, Runway Gen 4.5 and Google VO 3.0 are also rapidly being adopted in the country.
The report said, “Experts say that this uncontrolled spread of AI not only tarnishes people’s reputation, but can also cause serious long-term damage to the country’s education system, job market and cinema industry.”
Tech analysts want stricter regulations for AI to be enacted immediately, but they also strongly caution against allowing such laws to be weaponized to suppress protest and criticism.
“According to experts, the law should draw clear distinctions to define criticism, deliberate misinformation, hate speech, satire and political satire separately,” the report said. “If the law is not clear, there is a high risk of an ‘anti-rumour law’ rapidly turning into a ‘law to suppress criticism’,” the report said.
The report also calls for ensuring local accountability of social media groups (such as Facebook, TikTok and X) and increasing transparency and local language moderation to tackle fake accounts, bot networks, unlabeled AI videos and community content.
–IANS
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