Brainboxes will need a license, but their makers may get to share digital public goods
Chinese authorities published the nation’s rules governing generative AI on Thursday, including protections that aren’t in place elsewhere in the world.
Some of the rules require operators of generative AI to ensure their services “adhere to the core values of socialism” and don’t produce output that includes “incitement to subvert state power.” AIs are also required to avoid inciting secession, undermining national unity and social stability, or promoting terrorism.
Generative AI services behind the Great Firewall are also not to promote prohibited content that provokes ethnic hatred and discrimination, violence, obscenity, or “false and harmful information.” Those content-related rules don’t deviate from an April 2023 draft.
But deeper in, there’s a hint that China fancies digital public goods for generative AI.
