Centre to ensure safe & trusted AI, Internet platforms must curb deepfakes: Minister

New Delhi: In a bid to ensure safe and trusted artificial intelligence (AI), the Central government has once again made it clear to the social media intermediaries and platforms to act on prohibited misinformation, patently false information and deepfakes under the IT Rules, 2021.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Jitin Prasada, said that the government is cognisant of the need to create guardrails to ensure that AI is safe and trusted.

Accordingly, the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021) were subsequently amended.