Audio morse codes, encrypted metadata information, or labels in virtual-reality-generated scenes. 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
