China introduces security requirements for companies using generative artificial intelligence

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Baidu and other giants rejoice at new AI regulations in China

China has published proposed security requirements for companies providing services based on generative artificial intelligence. The document contains a blacklist of sources that cannot be used for training AI models.

Generative AI, made popular by the success of OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT, learns from past data and creates new content, such as text or images.

The requirements were published on Wednesday by the National Committee for Standardization of Information Security. The committee includes representatives from the Chinese Cyberspace Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the police.

The Committee suggests conducting a security assessment of each content used to train publicly available generative AI models. Content containing "more than 5% of illegal and malicious information" will be blacklisted. Such information includes calls for terrorism, violence, "overthrowing the socialist system", "undermining the country's image" and "national unity".

The draft rules also state that information censored on the Chinese Internet should not be used for training models.

The publication of these requirements comes a month after regulators allowed several Chinese technology companies, including search giant Baidu, to launch their chatbots based on generative AI.

Since April, the Chinese Cyberspace Administration has stated that it is necessary to provide security assessments before launching services based on generative AI.

In July, the cyberspace regulator published measures regulating such services, which analysts said were far less stringent than the measures presented in April's draft.

The requirements, published on Wednesday, require organizations that train these AI models to obtain the consent of individuals whose personal information, including biometric data, is used for training purposes.

The document also provides detailed recommendations for preventing intellectual property violations.

Many countries around the world face the challenge of setting a framework for this technology. China sees AI as an area in which the country wants to compete with the United States and aims to become a world leader in this area by 2030.
 
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