So now it’s official, Chinese chatbots will have to be ‘socialist’ and woe betide any tech company that allows its AI creation to have a mind of its own.
While the communist party wants to lead the world in AI, it is terrified of anything with a mind of its own
‘Content generated by generative artificial intelligence should embody core socialist values and must not contain any content that subverts state power, advocates the overthrow of the socialist system, incites splitting the country or undermines national unity,’ according to draft measures published Tuesday by China’s powerful internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC).
To this end, tech companies will have to send their chatbots to the CAC for security reviews before they are released to the public. In addition, the platforms providing the services will have to track their users and verify their identities – presumably to quickly spot miscreants posing the sort of tricky questions that might provoke a non-socialist answer.
China has already barred from the country ChatGPT, the Microsoft-funded chatbot that can provide seemingly well-researched answers to pretty much any question you can think to ask it.
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