India has issued a advice to acquire government permission before launching artificial intelligence (AI) models. There may be a powerful backlash against the announcement that a Chinese-style 'chatbot censorship system' will likely be implemented in earnest.
Reuters and TechCrunch reported on the 4th (local time) that India's Ministry of Electronics and IT entered the worldwide debate by announcing government approval recommendations.
In line with this, this advice requires obtaining government permission in addition to verifying that AI services or products don’t contain any bias or discrimination and wouldn’t have a negative impact on elections.
Particularly, IT Deputy Minister Rajiv Chandrasekhar said through
He also explained, “It targets untested AI platforms deployed on the Indian Web and doesn’t apply to startups.”
As well as, based on India's IT law, the advice “takes immediate effect” and asked firms to take motion inside 15 days and submit a standing report.
This measure is drawing strong criticism not only from the Indian industry but additionally from overseas. Particularly, until last 12 months, India focused on AI growth and selected a non-interference approach to the answers of AI models. Nonetheless, this measure is analogous to the Chinese government, including prior censorship and requiring integrity of answer content.
Many Indian startups and VCs criticized this policy, which might only further decelerate India's already lagging AI race.
“We have now been developing pest and disease prevention models using Large Language Models (LLMs) for the past 4 years, but now we have been discouraged by terrible policies,” said Pratik Desai, CEO of Indian startup Kisan AI. “The concept of bringing in cutting-edge generative AI has proven to be silly in the primary place.”
As well as, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Purplexity, criticized it as “India’s bad move,” and Martin Casado, partner at renowned enterprise capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said, “A tragedy has occurred.”
Meanwhile, it is understood that Gemini, who has been on the chopping block because of racial bias issues, influenced the Indian government's decision. A user reportedly asked Gemini whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is a fascist, and received the reply that Prime Minister Modi has implemented fascist policies.
For that reason, Deputy Minister Chandrasekhar warned through
Google later responded quickly to repair the difficulty, saying the tool “may not all the time be reliable,” especially for current events or political topics.
In response to this, Deputy Minister Chandrasekhar responded, “Safety and trust are the legal obligations of platforms. Saying 'I'm sorry for not being trustworthy' doesn’t exempt them.”
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com