The authorities might take into account introducing a brand new regulation to take care of deepfakes and misinformation, Union minister of state electronics and know-how Rajeev Chandrasekhar, stated on Tuesday. Separately, the IT ministry has known as two conferences with executives of social media companies, on Thursday and Friday.

The assembly on Thursday, to be held in Rail Bhawan, will concentrate on the problem of manipulated photographs and movies. The assembly on Friday, known as by Chandrasekhar, will concentrate on common compliance with IT guidelines.

Although the web and synthetic intelligence are empowering, they’re getting used to “cause harm, to cause chaos in society, to cause disorder, to incite violence”, the minister stated. Deepfakes are “a very important, clear and present danger” to Indian web customers, Chandrasekhar stated.

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“We have already worked very hard and created the IT Rules in April 2023. We will continue to create a framework, including but not limited to, if necessary, a new legislation to ensure that deepfakes or misinformation at large do not pose a threat… to the safety and trust of 1.2 billion Indians who will be on the Indian internet,” he instructed ANI information company.

The IT guidelines had been notified in February 2021 and had a rule that mandated all intermediaries, not simply social media platforms, to take away any materials that confirmed a consumer in full or partial nudity, or depicted them in a sexual act, or impersonated them, together with via morphed photographs. All intermediaries are mandated to take away such content material inside 24 hours of receiving a grievance from the consumer or somebody on her behalf.

In April this 12 months, the IT guidelines had been modified to permit a government-notified reality checking unit to determine any “fake or false or misleading” details about the enterprise of the central authorities.

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The IT ministry on November 20 requested all social media firms with greater than 50 million customers in India to attend a gathering on November, two days after IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated his ministry would name them to brainstorm about deepfakes.

On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern over misuse of know-how and synthetic intelligence to create deepfakes and stated the media can play a task in elevating consciousness

A day after a viral pretend video of Telugu actor Rashmika Mandanna sparked issues concerning the misuse of synthetic intelligence and its potential to additional gender violence on-line, the IT ministry had despatched two letters to all social media platforms, reminding them of their accountability to weed out misinformation and deepfakes as mandated by Indian regulation, HT had reported on November 8.

In an advisory issued in February, the ministry had requested social media platforms to “put in place appropriate technology and processes for identifying information that may violate the provisions of rules and regulations or user agreement”.