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Who Gets to Be the Past? Why Neutral Machines Still Remember Unequally

A viral wave of AI-generated retro 1980s portraits in India has prompted scrutiny of whose past these tools reproduce, alongside evidence such as MIT Technology Review's finding that GPT-5 chose caste-stereotyped answers in 80 of 105 test sentences. The debate intersects with MeitY's voluntary AI Governance Guidelines, the Centre's statement that no new horizontal AI law is needed yet and the IndiaAI Mission's funding of…