New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- Last month, India took its first shot at regulating AI. While its intent was initially praised, stakeholders have now come forth with a key observation: specifically, on 'algorithmically modified content'.

A quick recap: India's proposed rules to crack down on deepfake content on social media platforms wanted every piece of content-be it text, audio, photos or videos-to be tagged by platforms if they were altered in any way by algorithms.

This has caused a challenge. Stakeholders of the industry told me last week that requiring any content modified by algorithms isn't a sign of risks arising out of AI.

"Today, even if you take a photo and apply a basic colour filter on it, that also would need to be tagged as algor...