Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan have reportedly filed separate lawsuits against YouTube and Google over AI-generated deepfake videos circulating online. The actor couple is seeking damages of $450,000 (approximately ₹4 crore) and a permanent injunction to prevent further misuse of their images in such videos, according to a Reuters report.
The lawsuits reportedly contain hundreds of links and screenshots of videos that the actors allege show “egregious,” “sexually explicit,” or “fictitious” AI-generated content featuring them. They claim that YouTube’s content policies, along with third-party training policies for AI, allow users to share videos that could be used to train AI models, which risks further spreading misleading or harmful content.
The legal filings, dated September 6, stress that using content to train AI models can multiply instances of infringement. “Such content being used to train AI models has the potential to multiply the instances of use of any infringing content, i.e., first being uploaded on YouTube, viewed by the public, and then also used to train,” the filings said. 
Abhishek and Aishwarya argue that biased AI-generated content not only infringes their intellectual property rights but also spreads untrue portrayals of them, which could harm their personal and professional reputations. The Delhi High Court last month asked Google’s lawyers to submit written responses before the next hearing scheduled for January 15, 2026.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who last appeared in Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023), has yet to announce her next project. Abhishek Bachchan was last seen in Madhumita’s Kaalidhar Laapata and is slated to appear in Siddharth Anand’s King alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Suhana Khan.
