As synthetic media blurs the boundary between fact and fiction, India’s proposed amendments to the IT Rules seek to anchor truth in law. In 1818, Mary Shelley warned that invention without restraint could spawn monsters. Her Frankenstein was a parable about humankind’s failure to foresee the consequences of its own ingenuity. Two centuries later, that cautionary tale is playing out in digital form. The creature this time is a vast, shape-shifting artificial intelligence (AI)

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