Disclosure norms in data law likely to create barriers for generative AI

Enterprise AI solution firms are reviewing the Bill while closely watching the discussions of the transition period

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard AI may find themselves at odds with India’s newly-enacted data privacy law. This is because it requires every platform to disclose personal data held by them and needs mandatory user consent to continue processing it.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, received the President’s nod on Friday. The Act has been notified in the official gazette after six years of efforts, consultations, and iterations.

Though large language models like ChatGPT and Bard AI largely rely on publicly-available data, the information shared by users in their prompts is also fed