China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has published a proposed set of rules to govern the use of generative AI tools, as the country's tech giants begin to develop their own intelligent chatbots.
The CAC’s draft measures describe the type of content these products can generate and identify those who should be held responsible for their mistakes.
The CAC said that China supports AI innovation and application and encourages the use of safe and reliable software, tools and data resources. However, it specifies that content produced by generative AI has to be in line with the country's core socialist values and should not subvert state power.
Moreover, companies should ensure the data being used to train these AI models will not discriminate against people based on aspects such as ethnicity, race and gender, the CAC said. They should also not generate false information, the regulator added.
In addition, China has requested firms to...