Deepfake Problem: No immunity if companies don’t act on deepfakes: Minister | India Information

NEW DELHI: The authorities will quickly meet social media platforms on the deepfake subject, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated on Saturday, asserting that the protected harbour immunity clause won’t apply if platforms don’t take ample steps to take away deepfakes.
Vaishnaw instructed reporters that the federal government had lately issued a discover to firms on the deepfake subject, and the platforms responded, however added that the companies must be extra aggressive in taking motion on such content material.

“They’re taking steps…however we predict that many extra steps must be taken. And we’re very quickly going to have a gathering of all of the platforms…Perhaps within the subsequent 3-4 days, we’ll name them for brainstorming on that and be sure that platforms make ample efforts for stopping it (deepfakes), and cleansing up their system,” he stated.

Requested if large platforms like Meta and Google can be known as for the assembly, the minister replied within the affirmative.Vaishnaw additionally made it clear that the protected harbour immunity that platforms at the moment take pleasure in underneath the IT Act won’t be relevant except they take ample motion.
“The protected harbour clause, which most social media platforms have been having fun with…that doesn’t apply if they don’t take ample steps for eradicating deepfakes from their platforms,” he stated.