India: Technology

Imagine if Siri or Google Assistant could have the voice of Jagjit Singh or Asha Bhosle, the voices of legendary performers could be cloned using AI tools, reproduced endlessly, and sold to the highest bidder without consent or credit, this has become a reality!

In 2023, engineers of a South Korean consumer goods company inadvertently uploaded proprietary source code to a generative AI platform for routine de-bugging, which became permanently embedded in the AI platform's training data.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's (‘MEITY') release of the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2025 (‘SGI Amendment') is another spoke in the wheel of regulating internet aspects through the ‘intermediary' route under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (‘IT Act')