New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- India notified its artificial intelligence (AI) rules this week, cutting the deadline for taking down sexual content to within two hours of reporting. For other content, the time given is three hours. Can these moves make social media safer for us? Mint explores.

India's first dedicated legislation on digital media ethics code said all content significantly modified or generated by AI tools-such as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini-must be watermarked, without specifying what or how big the watermark would be. Basic image edits and addition of filters won't need such watermarks. Further, complaints related to deepfakes will be dealt with within three hours-with sexual content to be taken down within two hours. Com...