A law on generative AI in China states that all content generated with it must “embody core socialist values”.
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Beijing When the hype about the intelligent chat program ChatGPT swept to China at the beginning of the year, all the alarm bells rang in Beijing. For the state leadership, which strictly censors the Internet, the answering machine from the US start-up OpenAI is a threat to their ideologically influenced Marxist sovereignty of interpretation.
Although ChatGPT, trained with data sets from the free world, was never officially available in the People’s Republic, users with an affinity for technology gained access via tunnel software and other detours. The state Internet supervisors quickly plugged the loopholes in the Great Firewall.
Even more, as early as April, the cyber regulator CAC presented a draft law to regulate so-called generative artificial intelligence (AI). It states that all content generated with it must “embody basic socialist values”. In addition, the providers are liable for the dissemination of false information or content that endangers national security.
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