(Reuters) – India is drawing up guidelines for governing deepfakes, a prime minister mentioned on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised issues over the expertise.
“We plan to finish drafting the laws throughout the subsequent few weeks,” info expertise minister Ashwini Vaishnaw advised reporters after a gathering with lecturers, business teams and social media corporations.
Deepfakes are life like 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 known as on world leaders to collectively work in direction of regulating AI, and raised issues over the damaging impacts of deepfakes on society.
The method of drafting laws would additionally take 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 international locations internationally race to attract up guidelines to manage AI.
President Joe Biden final month signed an govt order requiring builders of AI programs that pose dangers to U.S. nationwide safety, the financial 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 algorithm which could possibly be accredited by subsequent month.
(Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh; Modifying by Jan Harvey)
