Indian news channels on YouTube are battling arbitrary blocking, curbs on earnings

[ad_1] At 1 am on April 4, Haseen Rehmani, the founder of Bolta Hindustan, a Hindi news YouTube channel received an email from YouTube, stating that their channel had been blocked due to a notice received from the Ministry of...

Why a government-run ‘fact-checking’ unit has been stayed by the Supreme Court

[ad_1] The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Centre’s notification from a day earlier of a government-run fact-checking unit with the power to label any information about the Union government as “fake”. This means that the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines...

What does a minister’s threats against Google’s chatbot mean for AI in India?

[ad_1] On Saturday, the Union government issued an advisory directing artificial intelligence platforms operating in India to get permission before launching “under-testing” or “unreliable” tools. The advisory also directed artificial intelligence tools to not generate responses that are illegal in...