India, April 15 -- The Gujarat High Court (HC) has issued notices to global tech giants Meta, Google, X, Reddit and Scribd in a case pertaining to the spread of AI-generated content hosted on these platforms. 

Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a robust regulatory framework to curb the spread of deepfake content, a division bench of chief justice Sunita Agarwal and justice DN Ray, directed the aforementioned intermediaries to file their responses by next hearing which is slated for May 8.

The petition flagged the growing circulation of AI-generated videos online, warning that the "widespread creation and circulation of AI generated videos on digital platforms" poses a "serious threat to public order and functioning ...