India Seeks To Regulate Deepfakes (techcrunch.com) 9
India is drafting rules to detect and limit the spread of deepfake content and other harmful AI media, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, following reports of proliferation of such content on social media platforms in recent weeks. From a report: Ashwini Vaishnaw, India's IT Minister, said the ministry held meetings with all large social media companies, industry body Nasscom and academics earlier in the day and has reached a consensus that a regulation is needed to better combat spread of deepfake videos as well as apps that facilitate their creations. "The companies share our concerns and they understood that it's [deepfakes] are not free speech. They understood that it's something that's very harmful to the society," he said. "They understood the need for much heavier regulation on this, so we agree that we will start drafting the regulation today itself." The ministry will be ready with "clear actionable items" on how to combat deepfakes in 10 days.
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Yeah good luck with that...
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The purpose of this law is so that when a naughty politician is caught on film, they can claim "deepfake" and have the journalist arrested.
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I don't know how bad it is in India, but in the West we have a problem with AI being used to produce fake nudes. The companies offering the services even advertise it openly as a way to harass women, with example chat conversations where the victim is sent a fake nude of themselves and the creep enjoys the power they have over them.
It would be nice if we could do something about that, especially for the children who get harassed with it at school. While the technological genie can never go back in the lamp
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Came here to say the exact same thing.
Hey India, let us know how that works out, okay?
India Prefers its Fakes Old School (Score:1)
That was a regulation deepfake with regulation por (Score:2)
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