Internet

Government Planning New Regulations for Hosting deepfakes: IT Minister

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[ad_1] The government is planning new regulations that may impose penalties on both creator and platform hosting deepfakes as it looks to clamp down on what IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishaw described as “a threat to democracy”.  Amid some celebrities reporting their faces being manipulated onto another video, new protection regulations being considered will look at … Read more

Social Media and Internet Misuse Top Parental Concerns, Says Study

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[ad_1] As children return to school, two problems have risen to the top of their parent’s concerns, the impact of social media and the internet on children’s life.  According to the University of Michigan Health CS Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, more than half of parents rank mental health issues as the … Read more

Web3, Crypto are Future of Internet, but Lack of Regulations Can Stir Chaos: IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

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[ad_1] Authorities in India seem to be warming up to the crypto sector, as we get closer to December when India’s G20 Presidency will conclude, hopefully with a detailed set of regulations to govern the sector. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, has acknowledged that crypto and Web3 are … Read more

OpenAI Sued in US for Allegedly Misusing Artists’ Work to Train ChatGPT

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[ad_1] Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to “train” its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, infringing the authors’ copyrights. … Read more