Nepal’s AI Policy Problem: Written Without the People It Affects

A few months ago, on the opening day of the CPN-UML’s general convention in Sallaghari, a photograph began circulating online showing a crowd far larger than anyone present remembered. The image, as it turned out, had been generated by Google’s Gemini and stitched onto a real photograph. By the time the correction arrived, the fake image had already done its work. Most people who shared it never saw the clarification.