"der aaye, durust aaye" — "better late than never"

This update should have reached your inboxes 1.5 months ago, so if you were waiting for this, it might have felt like time has slowed down. It didn’t. Only this author did.

Let's look back at Quarter 2 of 2026.

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Highlights

• Our collaboration with Decode (Boom Live) on the infrastructure powering Deepfake Nudes Generation was published. Read here.
• Anno.milli received new updates and now supports more types of annotations.
• DAU’s data is now accessible online. Watch the informational video here.
• We built guardrails for Personally Identifiable Information, Indian Slurs, and Gender Assumption Bias. This was demoed at Tech4Dev’s NGO cohort meetup.
• We published a guide to manual evaluations of AI systems. Read it here.

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Infrastructures of Synthetic Intimate Content

We spent four months investigating the infrastructure powering Generative AI’s role in creating Non-Consensual Intimate Images (NCII) at scale.

The investigation was published on Decode and can be read here.

We also sat down with ML researchers, policy researchers, and lawyers to discuss ways to reduce harms spread across internet infrastructure. A policy document is forthcoming.

We will also present at IndiaFOSS in September on the role of open source technologies in non-consensual synthetic imagery.

Related Links

• Highlights from the consultation event
• Accepted IndiaFOSS Talk Proposal

Read the full article: https://www.decodeinternet.in/life/investigation/desi-faces-foreign-servers-inside-the-ai-economy-undressing-women-31691

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Project Updates

Deepfakes Analysis Unit

Deepfakes Analysis Unit is a collaboration with Trusted Information Alliance (TIA), where citizens can share video and audio through a WhatsApp chatbot and receive information about AI manipulations.

The data collected over the last two years is now publicly accessible through the DAU verification platform.

Related Links

• DAU Dataset Launch
• Launch Event Recording

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Anno.Milli

Anno.milli is an open-source annotation platform built with the NCBS team.

It enables public annotations on archival material while supporting archival standards like EAD, making it useful for archives worldwide.

Related Links

• Introducing Anno.milli
• IndiaFOSS Talk Proposal

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Uli

We are working on a new release of the Uli Community service.

The release focuses on making contribution workshops easier while expanding the Uli dataset.

New contributors Ananyaa and Yashasvi made their first code contributions.

An upcoming community call will showcase the latest features.

Event Details

• Date: Monday, Aug 24
• Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST
• Location: http://meet.google.com/uae-cztv-fij

Through UNICEF Venture Fund's Femtech program, we are also interviewing creators with more than 5K followers who experience online abuse.

Related Links

• https://github.com/tattle-made/Uli/issues/931
• https://tattle.co.in/blog/2026-06-18-cost-of-entry/
• https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=a9af83af1f247ecc04f50ad46&id=34f574cb61

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We're Hiring

We are hiring for two full-time roles:

• Fullstack Research Engineer
• Software Engineer

Read Preeti's blog about working at Tattle:

https://tattle.co.in/blog/2026-05-29-good-and-bad-the-two-words-that-changed-how-i-think-about-work/

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Quantifying the Illicit Ecosystem of Betting Apps in India

Former Tattle Engineer Aatman recently published an award-winning paper with Prof. Kiran Garimella at ICWSM.

The paper studies online betting and gambling ecosystems using Meta Ads, Instagram posts, and Google Play reviews.

Read the paper here:

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/42752

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Until next time :)