The Indian IT Ministry has issued an advisory asking tech companies to be "careful" before they deploy any artificial intelligence product, such as a ChatGPT-style chatbot, for public use.
The advisory, issued by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday, comes in the wake of another advisory issued in December warning companies against the perils of deepfake technology.
"We issued the first advisory in December to deal with deepfakes and misinformation. Deepfakes are essentially misinformation powered by AI and yesterday (March 1) evening, we issued one more advisory, which is a continued one that advises intermediaries and platforms that use AI, to be very careful about deploying on the public internet in India and allowing access to consumers," Junior IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar told ANI.