India has withdrawn its plan to acquire government permission before launching artificial intelligence (AI) models. He backed down after receiving criticism from the industry and global investors.

TechCrunch reported on the sixteenth (local time) that India's Ministry of Electronics and IT issued updated AI recommendations. Here, the plan to acquire government approval prior to launching the AI ​​model available on the market has disappeared.

As a substitute, under the revised guidelines, corporations should label undertested and unreliable AI models to alert users that they’re fallible or unreliable.

This amendment is a revision of the advice announced on the first. The primary advice contained a warning that the Indian government would implement a Chinese-style 'chatbot censorship system' in earnest, drawing fierce criticism from the worldwide industry beyond India.

On the time, Purplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas criticized it as “India's bad move,” and Martin Casado, partner at renowned enterprise capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, described it as “travesty.”

Nonetheless, the revised advice, as before, emphasized that AI models mustn’t be used to share content that is illegitimate under Indian law and mustn’t be allowed to bias, discriminate or intimidate the electoral process.

Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com