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Should you trust what you see?

SHASHANK KUMAR

“2020, a year when most of
you, thanks to toilet roll shortages,
have finally understood how
it feels to have a predicament
on the throne”, a quote said by
the Queen Elizabeth of Britain
just before she started dancing
to a popular Tik-Tok song on
live TV, except that it was not
the real queen. Last year, actor
Game of Thrones: one of the most balanced pieces of work in the Debra Stephenson was hired
history of fiction by the Channel 4 to create a
deep fake video of the Queen
Plot, Character and addressing the citizens. The day

it aired, the British regulators
Writing Styles Standing received hundreds of confusing
calls and complaints.
the test of time for two reasons. To entertain
The video was created primarily
the viewers of the channel and
secondly, and most importantly,
PRIYANKA SRINIVAS with. Hence, their dependency to educate the masses of the
on a protagonist, antagonist, dangers and the repercussions of
A writer approaches fiction anti-hero or similar is inevitable, misusing Artificial Intelligence.
with mainly two different writing as these pieces work to connect
styles: plot-driven and character- the reader with the plot. Hence, Deep fakes are hardly a new
driven. While it is widely agreed characters are inherently more concept. Usually, a performer
that a balance between both styles important, right? While that is made to sound and look
generates the best works of art, seems true at a glance, people like someone popular, for
most authors have an inherent tend to remember an overlying example, Jordan Peele as
leaning to a particular style. plot more than the character, Barrack Obama. The website
It shows itself in their works. ‘thispersondoesnotexist.com’ uses
while recollecting a book in
These two styles of writing hindsight. To demonstrate, people machine learning to constantly A picture of the deep fake Queen (First picture), parts of the VFX
produce two distinct types of are able to summarize 1984, churn out pictures of people who removed (second picture) and the actor Debra Stephenson on
readers. People like character- a plot-driven narrative better do not even exist! “Whether a green screen set (third picture).
driven stories because these works than Picture of Dorian Gray, a what we see and hear is always twice before believing what we which can be anywhere close to
of art solely focus on producing character-driven masterpiece. what it seems” was the closing see on the internet. If a news reality. But the current technology
complex and realistically flawed People recognize the complexity message of the video. channel’s satirical video with has evolved enough to plant a
human characters. There is a of the character Dorian Gray, but Despite its satirical nature, the disclaimers can cause so much seed of doubt, and there is one
certain amount of projection, remember none of the contents real message of the gravitas of chaos, what can a well-made thing more powerful than all
where the readers see the on the book. This is because the video should escape none. deep fake do? Yes, we are years the armies in the world, an idea
fictional characters’ in their The video implores us to think away from creating a deep fake whose time has come.
real environments, maybe even well-written characters are meant
in themselves. On the other to be complex and difficult to
remember, much like the people
hand, plot-driven stories have in our contemporary world. In Involving university youth in
a grip on their target audience
because of highly interesting addition, a well-paced story has harvesting rainwater
and unusual series of events the correct twists and turns to
explained in an intriguing manner. brand the narrative in the mind of
Both plot-driven and character- the reader permanently. Hence, MAYANK JHA Initiative. The axiom “Catch at 11:00 AM on the 2nd of
driven stories need a good set of plots emerge stronger than them young” expresses the February 2021. The host of the
characters to follow and work characters, in the test of time. PRIYANK KAPOOR desire to train, cater, support event was Mr. Souvik Goswami

The highly anticipated and guide children early in life and the keynote speaker was
to develop love for education Mr. G Ashok Kumar. They
These two styles of writing “Involving University Youth in order to become lifelong were accompanied with other
in harvesting rainwater (Ministry
produce two distinct types of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India)” learners. renowned speakers such as Prof.
Ujjawal Choudhary, Dr. Sayalee,
This is a paramount concern
event was conducted virtually
of readers. People like on ZOOM. It was organized by to school librarians to meet the Mr. Suneel Kumar Arora, Mr.
JP Singh and many others.
the APAC News Network as a intrinsic fact in nation building.
character-driven stories part of “Catch Them Young” The two hour event started Involving University Youth in
harvesting rainwater was an open
because these works of art event and it was broadcasted
live on Facebook with over 300
solely focus on producing active attendees. A significantly
important event organised by the
complex and realistically APAC News Network succeeded
in enlightening the masses with

awed human characters all the guests sharing their
remarkable knowledge in the
field of Rainwater Harvesting.