Once upon a time, a decision was made to construct a road, envisioning the birth of a great city that would rival the best in the world.
As the roads began to be built and streetlights were installed, entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals alike eagerly anticipated the myriad opportunities the new city would offer.
Then, one day, the king announced the implementation of severe traffic laws and strict toll gates at strategic points to ensure smooth operation.
The problem? There was no traffic yet. There were no visitors to the city.
Eventually, only the police and the toll gates remained.
As time passed, all the merchants, innovators, and investors abandoned their dreams for this city and sought their fortunes elsewhere.
Welcome to India’s AI braindrain 2.0
The government of India has announced its new AI regulation that states the following:
All intermediaries or platforms to ensure that use of Artificial Intelligence model(s)/LLM/Generative Al, software(s) or algorithms)on or through its computer resource does not permit its users to host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share any unlawful content as outlined in the Rule 3(1)(b) of the IT Rules or violate any other provision of the IT Act.
The use of under-testing / unreliable Artificial Intelligence models) /LLM/Generative Al, software(s) or algorithms) and its availability to the users on Indian Internet must be done so with explicit permission of the Government of India and be deployed only after appropriately labeling the possible and inherent fallibility or unreliability of the output generated. Further, ‘consent popup’ mechanism may be used to explicitly inform the users about the possible and inherent fallibility or unreliability of the output generated.
TL;DR
- Companies building LLMs need to take explicit permission from the government
- All artificial intelligence (AI) models, large-language models (LLMS), software using generative Al or any algorithms that are currently being tested, are in the beta stage of development or are unreliable in any form must seek explicit permission of the government of India” before being deployed for users on the Indian internet, the government said.
That is, a sort of ISO 9000 — for AI.
There is no room for iteration — you need to ship the perfect product, for government to approve (though one has no clue who in the government has the authority/knowledge to even approve these?)
And the rule isn’t restricted just to Indian entities, but to anyone who has Indian users (why would a startup somewhere in Dubai/Vietnam/Stockholm even bother about this and not block Indian IPs to avoid any issues?)
Indias Generative AI scene has been bad (give me 5 native GenAI startup/products from India that has scaled to global impact?) and at a time when GenAI truly presents a great opportunity for the country to lead — we are installing traffic police and toll gates everywhere.
In empty roads.
This is where #BrainDrain2 starts.
