What is synthetically generated information under India's IT Rules?
Audio, visual or audio-visual content created or altered by algorithm so that it appears real — deepfakes, impersonation material, fabricated recordings. It must carry both a prominent visible label and permanent provenance metadata whose unique identifier…
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Audio, visual or audio-visual content created or altered by algorithm so that it appears real — deepfakes, impersonation material, fabricated recordings. It must carry both a prominent visible label and permanent provenance metadata whose unique identifier points at the computer resource that made it. The notified Rules do not fix a size for the label; the draft's ten-percent floor was dropped, and prominence is judged by whether the label is easily noticeable and adequately perceivable. Planisphere records that the label and metadata were applied, and on what basis prominence was claimed.
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synthetically generated information — labelling, provenance, rapid takedown (in force 2026-02-20).
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