The government has decided to take urgent steps to deal with the menace of deepfake technology, which can create fake and misleading videos and images using artificial intelligence. The Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology and Communications, Ashwini Vaishnaw, convened a meeting with key stakeholders, including social media platforms, government officials, and cybersecurity experts,.The minister said that the meeting was held to formulate a comprehensive strategy to combat the challenges posed by deepfake content. He said that the strategy would focus on four aspects: detection, prevention, reporting mechanism, and awareness. He said that deepfake had emerged as a huge social threat and needed immediate action.
He also said that new regulations would be brought in to address the issue and the drafting of the regulations would be completed in the coming weeks. He said that all the stakeholders had agreed on the seriousness of the threat and the need for heavier regulation. He said that deepfake was not free speech, but something that was really harmful for the society.