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China's Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen
These are some of the things the Chinese government wants AI companies and social media platforms to use to properly label AI-generated content and crack down against misinformation. On September 14, China's Cyberspace Administration drafted a new regulation that aims to inform people of whether something is real or AI. As generative AI tools get increasingly advanced, the difficulty to discern whether content is AI-generated is causing all kinds of serious issues, from nonconsensual porn to political disinformation. China's is not the first regime to tackle this issue--the European Union's AI Act, adopted this March, also requires similar labels; California passed a similar bill this month. And China's previous AI regulations also briefly mentioned the need for gen-AI labels. However, this new policy outlines more details of how AI watermarks should be implemented by platforms.