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The
rules drafted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)
come as several governments are considering how to mitigate the
dangers of the emerging technology, which has experienced a boom
in investment and consumer popularity in recent months after the
release of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
They also come after a slew of Chinese tech giants, including
Baidu, SenseTime and Alibaba, showed off in recent weeks their
new artificial intelligence models which can power applications
ranging from chatbots to image generators.
The CAC said that China supports AI innovation and application
and encourages use of safe and reliable software, tools and data
resources, but content generated by generative AI had to be in
line with the country's core socialist values.
Providers will be responsible for the legitimacy of data used to
train generative AI products and measures should be taken to
prevent discrimination when designing algorithms and training
data, it said.
The regulator also said service providers must require users to
submit their real identities and related information.
Providers will be fined, have their services suspended, or even
face criminal investigations if they fail to comply with the
rules.
If inappropriate content is generated by their platforms, the
companies must update the technology within three months to
prevent similar content from being generated again, the CAC
said.
The public can comment on the proposals until May 10, and the
measures are expected to come into effect sometime this year,
according to the draft rules.
(Reporting by Josh Ye in Hong Kong and Beijing newsroom; Editing
by Tom Hogue and Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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