The companies have each built their own answer to established foreign apps like Character.ai and Replika. Last year, Baidu launched Xiaokan Planet and Tencent’s online literature arm China Literature rolled out Zhumengdao. TikTok owner ByteDance released its Maoxiang app in March. The concept behind each of these products is roughly the same: they generate humanlike … Read more
“If the content is AI-generated, it must be labelled,” WeChat said on Wednesday via its content-security account, Shanhu – the Chinese word for “coral”. The super app, marketed as Weixin on the mainland, will help identify AI-generated content (AIGC) on the platform by displaying the relevant tag at the bottom of a published post. WeChat … Read more
The provisions were published jointly in 2022 by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Public Security. Beijing has become increasingly concerned about computer-generated content that can be used to create deepfake videos, disinformation or scams. China was the first country to regulate generative artificial intelligence and services like ChatGPT. But … Read more
