• It is native to freshwater habitats from south-eastern Iran to the Indian subcontinent. It refers to photos, videos, and audios generated by Artificial Intelligence which has very close resemblance to real-world photos or recordings.
• Such content is perceived as indistinguishable from a natural person or a real-world event.

Why in the news?

• The Ministry of IT has brought changes to the IT Act, 2021, making it mandatory for photorealistic AI-generated content to be prominently labelled.
• The amended act has also reduced the time given from 24-36 hours earlier to just 2-3 hours to remove certain categories of unlawful content.
• The rules also mandate social media firms to seek full disclosures from users about uploaded content.
• Failure to comply with new provisions can result in loss of safe harbour for social media firms. This means that firms will lose legal immunity for third-party content upload for failing to comply with the revised IT rules 2021.
• States can designate more than one officer who is authorised to issue takedown orders.

PYQ – When the IT Act was in the news previously, the UPSC asked a specific question. So please be prepared in this area for both GS II and GS III.

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