The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) national internet censor just announced that all AI-generated content will be required to have labels that are explicitly seen or heard by its audience and embedded in metadata. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) just released the transcript for the media questions and answers (akin to an FAQ) on its Measures for the Identification of Artificial Intelligence Generated and Synthetic Content [machine translated]. We saw the first signs of this policy move last September when the CAC’s draft plans emerged.
This regulation takes effect on September 1, 2025, and will compel all service providers (i.e., AI LLMs) to “add explicit labels to generated and synthesized content.” The directive includes all types of data: text, images, videos, audio, and even virtual scenes. Aside from that, it also orders app stores to verify whether the apps they host follow the regulations.
Users will still be able to ask for unlabeled AI-generated content for “social concerns and industrial needs.” However, the generating app must reiterate this requirement to the user and also log the information to make it easier to trace. The responsibility of adding the AI-generated label and metadata falls on the shoulders of this end-user person or entity.
When China is starting to look and act a whole letter better than the US…
starting?
Based.
How will they enforce this? And won’t the actual effect be the improvement of LLMs to the point they can no longer be distinguished from human text? I suspect this will end up being like a slow GAN training the LLMs.
Likely not going to be perfect enforcement, just harsh punishment to those caught violating it as a deterrent.
Likely, they won’t enforce it unless it is problematic content. Once the content becomes problematic, they can get rid of it.
yes, and not just china. these types of things are done like this all over the world.
Yeah. I’m just speaking to how China would implement this law.
What even counts as ai generated under this. Would vocaloids be considered ai generated? I saw a notice under the latest taiko game on steam that mentioned ai generated audio which was referring to vocaloids and other vocal synths.
Glancing at the article, this quote stood out:
This regulation takes effect on September 1, 2025, and will compel all service providers (i.e., AI LLMs) to “add explicit labels to generated and synthesized content.”
Those words are up for interpretation. Vocal synths and regular synths would make synthesized content in a sense. And they would be provided by music streaming services. Hopefully its more well defined in the actual law.
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china slowly but surely becoming the world leader. honestly wouldnt mind if they werent in the cahoots with dictators and countries like russia/north korea
Oh North Korea, not allowing the west to exploit and rob them, how evil! How could they dare?
are you retarded?
It seems like it is you who is “removed”
Awwww, how nice! I’m sorry that the rest of the world doesn’t cowtail to your far-right anti-DPRK delusions and can see reality for what it is. It must be so hard on you
Yep, unlike the US, they aren’t shooting themself in the foot. As they industrialize and invest in Africa, they are displacing the established world order.
