NEW DELHI, Feb. 11 -- India's first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) law, notified on Tuesday, may set Big Tech scrambling to put in place adequate content moderation teams after New Delhi drastically shortened timelines for taking down deepfake posts with nudity, defamatory and other illicit content.

The Centre has maintained that most technology firms are well-equipped to automate scanning and curb harmful content online. However, lawyers and policy executives said sweeping automation could lead to legitimate posts being taken down, content creators and advertisers being disrupted, and users potentially taking hours to make a single post-each a factor that may break the smooth flow of operations on the open internet.

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