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The world is filled with technology-driven systems and instruments in the present era. Artificial intelligence (hereinafter referred to as “AI”) is increasingly dominating our everyday life. Deepfakes is one such AI-based technological innovation that is leading to huge concerns amongst legal and scientific experts. There have been recent instances wherein videos of statements never made and acts never done by public figures became viral on the internet. Face swap in videos is easily done for the purpose of cyber bullying and harassment of innocent victims. Since creation of these synthetic contents called deepfakes is becoming easier by the day, the growing concerns surrounding them demand immediate attention. This chapter shall specifically probe into the deepfake technology with dual objectives (i.e., to understand the causes of concern surrounding deepfakes related AI-technology and to compare effective ideas and regulatory measures of nations abroad such as US and China) in order to arrive at possible solutions to appropriately tackle this issue in India.