Centre To Draft Rules On Deepfake Regulations In the Next 10 Days

During a meeting addressing the concern of deepfakes, highlighted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other celebrities, the consensus was to collaborate between the government and social media firms to establish comprehensive guidelines for detecting, preventing, and curbing the dissemination of such videos within the next ten days.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a press briefing, expressed that deepfakes pose a new challenge to democracy, indicating the government's contemplation of introducing regulatory measures.

"We have all agreed that within the next about 10 days, we will come up with clear actionable items...All the companies, all the platforms, and the entire industry understood that this is not free speech. They understood that this is something which is really harmful for the society. They understood the need for much heavier regulation on this. So we agree that we will start drafting the regulation today. We'll start drafting the regulations today itself. And within a very short time frame, we will have a new set of regulations for deep fake...," he said.

He also said,"Deep fake has emerged as a new threat in the society. We need to take immediate steps. Today a meeting was held with social media platforms. We've to focus on four aspects-detection, prevention, reporting mechanism of deep fake and awareness needs to be increased. New regulations will be brought and in the coming weeks, efforts will be made to complete the drafting of regulations...Social media companies, NASSCOM, and professors working on Artificial intelligence (AI) were also present in today's meeting."