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
Last month, at a forum in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, academics, industry observers and AI developers discussed gender bias in AI models and AI-generated content (AIGC), calling for more balanced data and better design, as well as for more equal rights in the real world. In recent years, China has been pushing its AI development along … Read more
TikTok’s Chinese sibling Douyin is working on technologies similar to what has been adopted by its global counterpart to automatically label artificial-intelligence-generated content (AIGC) reposted from external platforms. TikTok announced on Thursday that it began automatically labelling AIGC from other services by detecting metadata tagged to the images or videos. The feature will soon be … Read more
