Overview

• Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan filed separate Delhi High Court petitions seeking ₹4 crore (about $450,000) in damages and a permanent injunction against misuse of their likeness.
• The lawsuits ask the court to require Google to prevent YouTube uploads that misuse their persona from being used to train third‑party AI models.
• Reuters reviewed the roughly 1,500‑page filings, which include hundreds of links to alleged "egregious" or sexually explicit AI‑manipulated videos and also target unauthorized merchandise sellers.
• Despite the takedown order, Reuters found similar AI videos still live on YouTube, including a channel called AI Bollywood Ishq with 259 videos and 16.5 million views.
• YouTube’s policy lets creators opt in to share videos for training by external AI platforms and states it cannot control how third parties use that data, a practice the actors say fuels the spread of harmful deepfakes.