AI video of Assam CM Sarma shooting Muslims causes outrage in India

A now-deleted video generated by artificial intelligence and shared by India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam state, home to more than 12 million Muslims, has been widely condemned after it showed the northeastern state’s chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, appearing to shoot at Muslims.

The 17-second clip shared on X and titled “point blank shot” circulated widely on s...