New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- Starting Monday, India will host the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi with heads of state, global tech leaders and policymakers in attendance. Just days earlier, the ministry of electronics and information technology had notified a legal framework to govern synthetically generated or AI-driven content. The timing seems deliberate.

Announcing new AI rules on the eve of a high-profile global gathering allows India to signal that it takes AI harms seriously. But beyond the optics, the substance of these rules deserves attention.

At their core, the amendments focus on "synthetically generated information," which is content created or materially altered using AI and made available online via digital services like social me...