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The government and other stakeholders will draw up actionable items in 10 days on ways to detect deepfakes, to prevent their uploading and viral sharing and to strengthening the reporting mechanism for such content, thus allowing citizens recourse against AI-generated harmful content on the internet, Union information technology and telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. “Deepfakes have emerged as a new threat to democracy. Deepfakes weaken trust in the society and its…

Yesterday, July 11, was dominated by the incident where Suumit Shah, the founder of the ecommerce startup Dukaan tweeted about replacing 90 percent of the company's customer support staff with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, and netizens began condemning the founder for his lack of empathy. Today, things take a different turn as Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates posted a blog where he talked about the risks AI poses and how to manage it. In a separate incident, IT major Wipro launched its new service called ai360.…

Generative AI is changing the way the world works. It has affected a multitude of industries and as it keeps getting smarter, the chances are its scope of impact will also increase. And the inception of this new technology, in many ways, came in November 2022, when OpenAI made the public release of ChatGPT. However, even the founder and CEO of the company that made this technology, Sam Altman, is not convinced of its accuracy. In a session at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, Altman said…

While generative AI is rapidly advancing, it also raises concerns about its potential to be used maliciously. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models may be susceptible to bias, as they learn patterns and generate output/predictions based on the data they are trained on. If the training data is biased or incomplete, the model's output can also be incorrect/biased. Also, given that AI language models can generate human-like text and can be trained to impersonate the writing style of humans, there are also serious…