AI-generated content labelling to curb cybercrime, sexual abuse: MeitY’s Abhishek Singh

NEW DELHI: The government is working on a mandate to use a watermark on artificial intelligence or AI-created content to prevent cybercrime and rampant misuse, including deepfakes and sexually-explicit images and videos, according to a senior official.

“We have recently come out with the draft provisions with regard to watermarking of AI-generated content, which required all AI-generated content to be labelled, because very often a lot of cybercrime is done with AI-generated content, and deepfakes are created which can cause problems,” Abhishek Singh, additional secretary, Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY), and CEO of IndiaAI Mission, told ET.