The Cyberspace Administration (Cyberspace Administration of China, CAC) has published new regulatory measures to manage a dynamically developing industry of generative AI. The statement emphasizes the desire of the authorities to support the development of this sector. About this reported the publication “Reuters” .
The new rules that have received the status of “intermediate” will enter into force on August 15. This follows after the signal of the authorities about the completion of many years of state control over the technological industry. The authorities hope that the support of the industry will help activate economic recovery after the removal of restrictions related to Covid-19.
Analysts noted that the final measures turned out to be less strict than those that were proposed in the April project. Particular attention in the final rules is paid to the establishment of the balance between the support of the development of technologies and ensuring their safety.
The CAC statement indicates that only those providers who intend to offer their services to the general public will be required to provide security assessments. This gives more freedom to companies developing products for the business segment.
Investments are actively sent to the Chinese sector of generative AI. Large companies, such as Baidu and Alibaba Group, have already launched many AI models. But before the final approval of the rules for regulating the technology and approval of their products, the companies postponed the launch of chat bots for overall use.
Instead, many technological companies in China concentrated on the industrial use of AI. For example, the company in the field of e-commerce JD.com has already launched a corporate large language model Chatrhino.
The application gives a positive signal that the regulators are actively working on creating conditions for large-scale launch of AI products in China.
China seeks to make AI a region where it can compete with the United States, and plans to become a world leader in this sector by 2030. The CAC statement repeatedly emphasizes that the content created using generative AI for the general public must correspond to the main socialist values of the country.
Services suppliers are recommended to use legitimate data sources and guarantee that intellectual property rights are not violated. The regulator emphasized that the authorities seek to encourage the development of such areas of technology as algorithms of generative AI and semiconductors, as well as participate in the development of international rules.