New regulations to check deepfakes in works: IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

Communications and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday asked all social media platforms to present their plan of action within the next 10 days to curb the growing menace of deepfakes and other misuse of AI generated technologies.

The minister who earlier in the day held a meeting with all the platforms which included the likes of Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Telegram, industry body Nasscom and several AI academicians, said that their inputs would be incorporated by the government in framing new regulations that may impose penalties on both creator and platform hosting deepfakes.