R. Priyanga, LL.M, SRM University, Chengalpattu, KTR Campus ABSTRACT The right to be forgotten (RTBF) enshrined in Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and partially recognised under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA) was conceived in an era of structured databases and searchable indexes. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including large language models (LLMs), diffusion models, and multimodal foundation models, have fundamentally...