New Delhi, Nov 24 (Agency) Amid consternation and outrage over a series of deepfake videos on social media, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar today said that the Centre will soon appoint an officer to take appropriate action against such content. Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) will develop a website on which users can flag their concerns about IT rule violation. “Meity will assist users to notify it about violation of IT rules and assist them in filing a First Information Report or FIR,” the Union Minister said. The FIR will be registered against the intermediary and if they disclose the details from where the content has originated then the case will be filed against the entity that has posted the content, the minister said. Mr Chandrasekhar said that the existing laws and Rules have clear provisions to deal with Deepfake.
He said that social media platforms have been given seven days time to align their terms of use as per the IT rules. “From today onwards, there is zero tolerance for violation of IT rules,” Mr Chandrasekhar said.Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also flagged the misuse of AI or artificial intelligence for creating deepfake videos and called it a “big concern.” “During the times of Artificial Intelligence, it is important that technology should be used responsibly,” he cautioned. The Centre has said that the creation and circulation of deepfakes carry a strong penalty 1 lakh in fine and three years in jail. The videos have sparked massive worry about fake videos targeting public figures and the power of AI to create deepfakes that can mislead the world.