What government advisory – and its critics – don’t get about AI

On March 1, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, specifically the Cyber Law and Data Governance Group, released an advisory that instructed intermediaries and platforms to exercise due diligence in platforming content, to make certain said content does not run afoul of the IT Rules 2021. It asked, “intermediaries or platforms to ensure that use of Artificial Intelligence model(s)/LLM/Generative AI, software(s) or algorithm(s) … does not permit its users to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share any unlawful content as outlined in the Rule 3(1)(b) of the IT Rules or violate any other provision of the IT Act”.