India Just Drew a Red Line on Deepfakes: The Gazette Notification That Makes Platforms Label, Trace—and Block—AI-Generated Content (Effective 20 Feb 2026)

 

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India has taken a major regulatory step against deepfakes and AI-manipulated media. Through a Gazette notification dated 10 February 2026 (G.S.R. 120(E)), the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology has amended the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021—bringing in a new compliance framework for “synthetically generated information” (AI-generated or AI-altered audio, images, and videos that can look real). These amendments come into force from 20 February 2026.

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Beyond Deepfakes: How AI’s “Hallucinated Truths” Will Rewire Legal Personhood, Evidence, and Equality in India

 Bold takeaway: The next AI challenge for courts is not merely detecting fakes but deciding what it means to be a person in law when synthetic outputs can generate biometric “truths” that rival or surpass human testimony. India needs synthetic-aware evidence rules, constitutional protection for ontological autonomy under Article 21, and equality safeguards against algorithmic arbitrariness under Article 14—especially as AI-assisted judicial systems expand their footprint.

The Case That Changed the Question: From Authenticity to Ontology

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