Ahead of general elections later this summer, the Indian Ministry for Electronics and Information Technology has told the companies that own Artificial Intelligence platforms that their services must not generate responses that “threaten the integrity of the electoral process”.
The advisory was sent to generative Artificial Intelligence platform-owning companies like Google and OpenAI as well as the ones that run similar platforms.
‘Advisory is a signal to the future course of legislative action that India will undertake to rein in generative AI platforms’, said Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Chandrasekhar, who has been named BJP Lok Sabha candidate for the 2024 General Elections from southern India’s Thiruvananthapuram, said that the government may seek a demo of their AI platforms including the consent architecture they follow.
The companies have been asked to submit an action taken report within 15 days. “The use of under-testing / unreliable Artificial Intelligence model(s)/ LLM /Generative AI, software(s) or algorithm(s) and its availability to the users on Indian Internet must be done so with the explicit permission of the Government of India and be deployed only after appropriately labeling the possible and inherent fallibility or unreliability of the output generated. Further, the ‘consent popup’ mechanism may be used to explicitly inform the users about the possible and inherent fallibility or unreliability of the output generated,” the advisory said.
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