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The government is mulling to come with a framework to prevent exploitation of content creators by big platforms on internet, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday. The minister said that big powerful commercial platforms online have started to distort fundamental characteristic of openness of the internet. "I think to maintain the openness, the symmetry between those who create the content and those who distribute the content, there is a need for some sort of conversation or…

US Intelligence pursues the goal of safe AI amid China tech competition; YouTube takes down 1,000 plus AI-generated celebrity scam ads amid deepfake concerns; Indian Publishers push for copyright protection amid rising AI concerns; Shahid Kapoor talks AI's future impact while promoting sci-fi love story- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. US Intelligence pursues safe AI edge amid China tech competitionUS intelligence agencies are turning to AI for an edge against global rivals like China, but face…

New Delhi: The New York Times (NYT) Wednesday sued ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Microsoft — an investor that owns 49 percent of the former — over “unlawful” use of content protected by US copyright law, a first for a news publication.In the lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan, NYT has argued that, due to its content being used in training the generative AI tools, the latter can “can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarises it and mimics its expressive style…These tools also wrongly…

At a time when there is chatter about misuse of AI, 18 countries, including the US, Britain, Germany and Italy have signed an agreement on how to keep the technology safe from rogue actors and make them safe for use by the wider public.A 20-page document pushed tech companies to create AI systems that are “secure by design,” so that they can be developed and deployed in a safe manner. The agreement is non-binding and carries mostly general recommendations such as monitoring AI systems for abuse, protecting data from…

An inter-ministerial consultation is going on to frame an e-commerce policy which would help in providing a conducive environment for inclusive and harmonious growth of the sector, a top government official said. Secretary in the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) Rajesh Kumar Singh said that broadly the intention is to make the policy work along with the consumer protection rules and not in conflict with each other. The policy aims to prepare strategies for providing a conducive environment…

The government will meet policy experts and other stakeholders for the second round of consultations on May 3 to draft the much-anticipated Digital India Act (DIA) which is expected in the next 2-3 months.In March, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) held the first round of pre-drafting consultations with stakeholders on the Digital India Act that aims to catalyse India's ambition of being in the leading pack of nations that would shape the future technologies.According to sources, since the…

The Union government is readying to release the first draft of the new Digital India Act (DIA) by late July or early August, said people aware of the matter.“We will start pre-draft consultations in the first week of May in which we will invite lawyers, public policy consultants and other experts to submit their views on what should be included in the new Act. We will also give them (stakeholders) 45 days to upload their written submissions,” said a senior government official, who did not wish to be identified.The…

The government is considering multiple proposals for the design of its proposed fact-check unit, which will be mandated to ascertain the veracity of government-related information online, minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday. The government is also still deliberating on who will be the unit’s members, he said.Only news that is false will be labelled fake, he said when asked about checks and balances that prevent the unit from labelling any news critical of the…

Illustration by Rahul AwasthiThe Centre on Thursday presented the formal outline of the Digital India Act, 2023 where the government is mulling to remove the safe harbour provision for internet intermediaries.Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the logic behind safe harbour "was that internet platforms have absolutely no power or control over the content that some other consumer creates"."But in this day and age, is that really necessary? Is that safe harbour required?" Chandrasekhar…

The draft Digital India Bill, which will replace the Information Technology Act, 2000, is likely to be ready by early July, sources told ET.There will be at least two more consultations on the principles of the Bill by March 20, and the draft consultation will last 90 days, they added. The first consultation meeting on the Bill was held in Bengaluru on Thursday. It was attended by as many as 300 stakeholders, of whom more than 200 attended virtually.The stakeholders consisted of law firms, technology companies, technology…