The central government on Friday issued notice to Elon Musk’s It warned the platform to promptly take down all vulgar and illegal content, particularly material generated by its AI app Grok, failing which it would face action under the law.
This comes amid massive outrage and after Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote to Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw, raising concerns about the alleged misuse of artificial intelligence tools on social media to share objectionable images of women through fake accounts.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued a notice to
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The ministry has also requested an action-taken report calling for immediate compliance to prevent the hosting, creation, publication, transmission or sharing of obscene, nude, indecent and sexually explicit content through the misuse of AI-based services such as ‘Grok’.
The letter further said, “It is reiterated that non-compliance with the…requirements shall be viewed seriously and may result in strict legal consequences against your platform, its responsible officers and the users on the platform who violate the law, without any further notice, under the IT Act, the IT Rules, the BNSS, the BNS and other applicable laws.”
(This is a developing story. More to come)
