Deepfake: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has called a meeting with social media representatives on the issue of deepfakes on Thursday. The move comes amid concerns over misuse of technology and the government’s determination to push digital platforms to tackle deepfakes. Ministers will hold a meeting on social media on November 23 on the issue of deepfakes.
A new information has come to light that Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has called a meeting with representatives of social media platforms on the issue of deepfakes on Thursday.
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The move comes amid concerns over misuse of technology and the government’s determination to push digital platforms to crack down on deepfakes.
Meeting will be held on 23rd November
According to a source, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav will meet social media platforms on the issue of deepfakes on November 23. Recently several ‘deepfake’ videos targeting prominent actors went viral, sparking outrage and raising fears over misuse of technology and tools to create fake content and stories.
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Deepfake is the cause of big crisis
On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned that deepfakes created by AI could cause major crisis and create discontent in the society. Along with this he urged the media to raise awareness and educate people about its misuse.
Notice issued to companies
Vaishnav warned that the safe harbor immunity clause would not apply if platforms do not take adequate steps to remove deepfakes.
The government recently issued a notice to companies on this issue, and when the platforms responded, the minister clarified that companies will have to be more aggressive in taking action on such content.
There will be big platforms in the meeting
Speaking to reporters late last week, Vaishnaw said they were taking steps, but we think many more steps need to be taken. And we are going to have a meeting of all the platforms very soon.
Perhaps in the next 3-4 days we will call them to brainstorm on this and ensure that the platforms do enough to stop it (deepfakes) and clean their systems.
When asked whether big platforms like Meta and Google would be called for the meeting, the minister had replied in the affirmative.
Vaishnav had said that the safe harbor clause, which most social media platforms enjoy. This does not apply if they do not take sufficient steps to remove deepfakes from their platforms.
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