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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi connected Thursday (January 1, 2025) wrote to Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw, raising concerns implicit the alleged misuse of artificial quality (AI) tools connected societal media platforms to station objectionable images of women utilizing fake accounts.
She said specified practices magnitude to a superior breach of women’s privateness and urged the Centre to instrumentality urgent steps to safeguard their rights. “There person to beryllium guardrails enactment successful spot by features similar Grok truthful that they bash not interruption women’s dignity. Big tech firms request to instrumentality the onus,” Ms. Chaturvedi said.
In the letter, Ms. Chaturvedi brought to attraction a “new inclination that has emerged connected societal media”, particularly connected X, done the misuse of its AI Grok feature, wherever men “use fake accounts to station women's photos and propulsion prompts into Grok to minimise their covering and sexualise them”.
“It is not conscionable constricted to sharing photos done fake accounts but are besides targeting women who station their ain photos. This is unacceptable and a gross misuse of an AI function," she said.
She further added, "What is worse is that Grok is enabling this behaviour by adhering to specified requests. This is simply a breach of women's close to privateness arsenic good arsenic unauthorised usage of their pictures, which is not conscionable unethical but besides criminal."
Ms. Chaturvedi has further urged the Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology to instrumentality decisive enactment against the societal media level X and to instrumentality safeguards successful AI-driven tools to guarantee women's information online.
In a letter, Ms. Chaturvedi said India cannot stay a bystander portion women's dignity is violated publically and digitally nether the guise of creativity and innovation. She flagged increasing concerns implicit akin unchecked patterns crossed large tech platforms and stressed that specified practices magnitude to transgression behaviour.
"Our state cannot beryllium a bystander to women's dignity being violated publically and digitally with zero consequences nether the garb of creativity and innovation condone specified prompts. We are seeing akin patterns look adjacent connected different large tech platforms that are going perfectly unchecked. As a federation we indispensable instrumentality this up connected a precedence to guarantee women are not the victims of specified openly transgression practices and further soundlessness and propulsion them retired of these platforms," the missive reads.
Emphasising the request for urgent intervention, she said the authorities indispensable guarantee women are not silenced oregon pushed retired of integer spaces.
Ms. Chaturvedi added that portion India welcomes artificial quality and its benefits, it volition not tolerate the dispersed of demeaning contented targeting women, and expressed anticipation that the Ministry would instrumentality up the contented with large tech companies.
She condemned the men who tally these fake accounts. “I privation men indulging successful specified behaviour were educated amended astatine their homes & schools truthful arsenic to not go specified sick perverts successful their adulthood,” she said.
(With ANI inputs)
