Nov 23 (Reuters) – India is drawing up guidelines for governing deepfakes, a high minister stated on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised considerations over the expertise.

“We plan to complete drafting the regulations within the next few weeks,” data expertise minister Ashwini Vaishnaw advised reporters after a gathering with teachers, business teams and social media corporations.

Deepfakes are practical but fabricated movies created by synthetic intelligence (AI) algorithms skilled on on-line footage.

In his opening remarks at a digital summit of G20 nations on Wednesday, Modi referred to as on international leaders to collectively work in the direction of regulating AI, and raised considerations over the destructive impacts of deepfakes on society.

The strategy of drafting laws would additionally have a look at penalties on each the particular person importing the content material and the social media platform on which it was posted, Vaishnaw added.

The transfer comes as nations the world over race to attract up guidelines to manage AI.

President Joe Biden final month signed an government order requiring builders of AI techniques that pose dangers to U.S. nationwide safety, the economic system or public well being or security to share the outcomes of security checks with the U.S. authorities earlier than they’re launched to the general public.

The United Nations too has created a 39-member advisory physique to deal with points within the governance of AI, whereas European lawmakers have ready a draft set of guidelines which might be accredited by subsequent month.

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