Akshay Kumar yesterday said a trailer that shows him as Maharishi Valmiki is fake and generated with the help of AI.

“I have recently come across some AI- generated videos showing me in the role of Maharishi Valmiki. I want to clarify that all such videos are fake and created using AI. What’s worse is some news channels decide to pick these up as ‘news’ without even verifying if these are real or morphed,” he wrote, according to a PTI report from New Delhi.

He then extended a request to media houses to verify and report such information.

“In today’s time, when misleading content is being produced at great speed through manipulative AI, I sincerely request media houses to verify and report only after authenticating the information,” he added.

This note comes after celebrities like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Karan Johar have legally requested protection over online unauthorised misuse of their name, image, voice and personality.

Akshay recently starred in ‘Jolly LLB 3’ alongside Arshad Warsi, which released in theatres on September 19.

A PTI report on September 22 said that ‘Jolly LLB 3’ had crossed the mark of Rs 50 crore nett at the domestic box office in three days of its release.

The film is the third installment in the courtroom comedy franchise that started with 2013’s ‘Jolly LLB’, featuring Warsi as a down-on-luck lawyer from Meerut, Jolly Tyagi.

It was followed by 2017’s ‘Jolly LLB 2’ that saw Kumar starring as Jolly Mishra, another struggling lawyer from Kanpur.