China bans AI-generated media without watermarks

TL;DR

While serving user needs and improving user experience, it has also been used by some unscrupulous people to produce, copy, publish, and disseminate illegal and harmful information, to slander and belittle others' reputation and honor, and to counterfeit others' identities.Under the regulations, new deep synthesis products will be subject to a security assessment from the government.Also, the administration particularly emphasizes the requirement for obvious "marks" (such as watermarks) that denote AI-generated content:Providers of deep synthesis services shall add signs that do not affect the use of information content generated or edited using their services.Further, companies that provide deep synthesis tech must keep their records legally compliant, and people using the technology must register for accounts with their real names so their generation activity can be traceable.A growing number of tech experts have recently recognized that China and the United States face a coming wave of generative AI that could pose challenges to power structures, enable fraud, or even tamper with our sense of history."

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