No official work should be done with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek. This is a directive from the Finance Ministry to all its employees.
Why? For security reasons, of course! Use of AI is a threat to confidentiality, especially when the Ministry deals in several important government documents and data.
The Ministry of Finance, India is not the only one concerned about security issues that accompany the use of AI tools. The governments of Italy and Australia too are being extremely cautious and have banned the use of similar tools.
It is pertinent to mention here that Asian News International (ANI) had taken legal action against OpenAI last November. Several other Indian news organisations, such as The Hindu, The Indian Express , The India Today group and NDTV are considering joining the lawsuit against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, for using their content without authorisation. These organisations are just a few of the many others across the world that have filed similar allegations against ChatGPT.
OpenAI of course denies the allegations and maintains that it uses data that is available publicly and it has always acted within the law.
Given the fact that Indians form a majority of ChatGPT’s user base,the lawsuit is rather significant to OpenAI’s expansion plans in the country.
Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, was in Delhi to meet IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, to discuss the development of an economical AI ecosystem.
