Authentication of content, its source will be key with Gen AI: Tamil Nadu IT minister
Generative AI, Tamil Nadu's minister for IT and digital services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR) said during the Global Investors Meet (GIM) in Chennai.
«As much as Generative AI can replace human beings, you can also do a lot of deep fakes. So, authentication of content and origination of source are going to be very important,» he said. «We have seen election manipulation in many countries through AI, deep fakes and content manipulation.»
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«The first, and by far the most important for somebody like me, who comes from a social justice philosophy, equity and inclusion agenda to public life, is that we can change the way government functions,» he said. «We can remove a lot of the human elements and the disruption they can create in processes. And we should be able to make it so inclusive, that even (those with) the lowest level of education, with voice interaction, should be able to get resolution of their requests or needs from the government without worrying about running from pillar to post and seeing 10 different offices.»
Further, he said that in the case of Tamil Nadu, where the state has fallen behind other states, 'at least in perception and branding,'
