China put into force this week its newest regulations on artificial intelligencegenerated content a watereddowned version of stricter draft rules . Experts say the new rules appear to be diluted from strict draft regulations published earlier this year as Beijing seeks to encourage homegrown entrants to the USdominated industry .
The scope of the rules has been dramatically narrowed to apply only to generative AI programmes available to the public excluding research and development uses . Service providers must label AIgenerated content as such and take measures to prevent gender age and racial discrimination when designing algorithms .
AI programmes must be trained on legally obtained data sources that do not infringe on others intellectual property rights and individuals must give consent before their personal information can be used in AI training . The shift might be viewed as indicating that Beijing subscribes to the idea of an AI race in which it must remain competitive, says a senior law partner at international law firm Taylor Wessing .
The rules are technically provisional measures subject to the conditions of preexisting Chinese laws . They are the latest in a series of regulations targeting various aspects of AI technology including guidelines on deep learning technology that came into effect earlier in the country this year .
China has taken a more vertical or narrow approach to creating relevant legislation than the EU and the U.S. with the most lenient approach to developing its own AI technology . The EU takes the most stringent approach to its own regulations. The rules have been described as ‘taken a more vertically or narrow” approach to the EU’s approach.
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