{"id":293659,"date":"2025-11-15T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293659\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:08:11","slug":"artificial-intelligence-regulations-begin-on-chinas-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/293659\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence regulations begin on China’s internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine an internet not full of AI slop, where you don\u2019t have to second-guess the veracity of every video and headline you see. China, already infamous for a strictly regulated internet, is cracking down on artificial intelligence misinformation<\/a>, according to Nikkei Asia<\/a> (via <\/a>Futurism<\/a>). It\u2019s part of the country\u2019s \u201cClean Up the Internet: Rectifying the Abuse of AI Technology\u201d program, which, honestly, sounds pretty good right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The program has apparently imposed regulations<\/a> around AI misinformation as well as using AI to create and spread rumors, generate pornographic or violent images, impersonate others, manipulate web traffic or conduct \u201conline trolling,\u201d or abuse minors. According to Futurism, \u201cauthorities have been making examples out of a number of misinformation peddlers,\u201d which does sound markedly less good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

China has generally been on the forefront of creating and enacting AI regulation.A report<\/a> from The International Association of Privacy Professionals earlier this year states that \u201clocal authorities, such as in Shanghai and Shenzhen have issued their own experimental regulations to test case different regulatory approaches, although these remain relatively light-touch in terms of prescriptive obligations on companies\u201d and have not been \u201cadopted at the central level.\u201d Further, the country has proposed \u201can international body designed to foster international collaboration on AI development and regulation,\u201d which would \u201ccoordinate global efforts, complement the work of the UN, share China\u2019s advancements in AI, and help prevent monopolistic control by a few countries or corporations,\u201d according to<\/a> the American National Standards Institute.<\/p>\n

While China attempts to regulate how its citizens use AI, a report from OpenAI in June alleged that Chinese propagandists were already using the tech in \u201cmalicious ways,\u201d per NPR<\/a>. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing from China is a growing range of covert operations using a growing range of tactics,\u201d said Ben Nimmo, principal investigator on OpenAI\u2019s intelligence and investigations team. These Chinese operatives allegedly used ChatGPT and other OpenAI tools in ways that \u201ctargeted many different countries and topics\u2026. Some of them combined elements of influence operations, social engineering, surveillance,\u201d Nimmo said. In other words\u2014artificial intelligence regulations are proving pretty necessary, even and especially on a national security level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine an internet not full of AI slop, where you don\u2019t have to second-guess the veracity of every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-293659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}