"India's government has stepped back from its plan to require government approval for AI services before they come online."

I posted about this when it was first announced (on March 12), so I feel obligated to post this follow-up.

"That plan, announced in early March, was touted as India grappled with what the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology described as the 'inherent fallibility or unreliability' of AI."

"But last Friday the ministry issued a widely reported update removing the requirement for government permission, but adding obligations to AI service providers. Among the new requirements for Indian AI operations are labelling deepfakes, preventing bias in models, and informing users of models' limitations. AI shops are also to avoid production and sharing of illegal content, and must inform users of consequences that could flow from using AI to create illegal material."

India reverses government approval for AIs edict - The Register

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India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, also known as "MeitY" (do you pronounce that "mighty"?) "issued a late night advisory on March 1, a first-of-its-kind globally. It asked all platforms to ensure that 'their computer resources do not permit any bias or discrimination or threaten the integrity of the electoral process' by the use of AI, generative AI, LLMs or any such other algorithm."

"Though not legally binding, Friday's advisory is 'signaling that this is the future of regulation', union minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. 'We are doing it as an advisory today asking you (the AI platforms) to comply with it."

MeitY approval must for companies to roll out AI, generative AI models

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MeitY approval must for companies to roll out AI, generative AI models

In its advisory sent late on Friday, the IT ministry has also said that such platforms will have to explicitly seek permission from the government to operate in India and must offer disclaimers and disclosures of their platforms being under testing.

"The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) launched a Request for Comment on the risks, benefits and potential policy related to advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with widely available model weights."

If you have an opinion as to whether "open-weight" models are dangerous or not, you can submit a comment to the NTIA.

"Open-weight" means the weights of the model are made public, as opposed to the source code (that would be "open source") or the training data being made public. With the model weights, you can run the model on your own machine without the source code or training data or going through the compute-intensive training process.

NTIA solicits comments on open-weight AI models

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