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Amid consternation and outrage over a series of deepfake videos, actor Alia Bhatt has joined the list of celebrities who have fallen prey to the technology.

“We sometimes don’t believe our own eyes or our own ears. We are now recognizing that authenticity is a performance itself,” said an editor at Merriam-Webster.

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The Centre conducted a meeting and issued an advisory to all social media platforms amid the increase in AI generated deepfakes.

OpenAI: "We dont need heavy regulation here or probably for the next couple generations. But at some point, when a model can do the equivalent output of a whole company, or a whole country, or a whole world, maybe we do want some collective supervision around that," he said on a panel at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco.

Intermediaries have to “explicitly” warn users that they cannot “host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share” any content that belongs to someone else, is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic or invasive of another users privacy.

During the meeting with the social media platforms on combating deepfakes, the government also said that platforms will have to disclose first originator of information. This particular requirement, which figures in the IT Rules, have been controversial as it experts say that it threatens encryption of messaging platforms

The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting on Friday where he said many companies had not updated their usage terms despite 2022 rules that prohibit content 'harmful' to children, obscene or that 'impersonates another person'

The nail-biting drama around Sam Altman being sacked from OpenAI, joining Satya Nadella-run Microsoft and then returning to OpenAI -- all within a span of six days -- has alerted governments and regulators and the call to apply guardrails on AI industry is now more vocal than ever.

The deepfake controversy involving Indian celebrities has sparked a discussion around the urgent need for AI regulations and safeguards.