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governmentA Library of Congress legal analysis of China's first finalized generative AI regulations, relevant for comparative AI governance and understanding how major AI-developing nations are approaching deployment oversight and content safety obligations.
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On July 10, 2023, China's Cyberspace Administration and six other regulators finalized interim measures governing generative AI services offered to the public in mainland China. The measures cover content safety, training data quality, and security assessments for services with public opinion influence. The final version notably relaxed some draft provisions, removing strict liability for pretraining data and explicit real-name registration requirements.
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- •Seven Chinese central government agencies jointly issued binding interim measures for generative AI services on July 10, 2023.
- •Applies to public-facing AI services generating text, image, audio, or video; excludes non-public development and internal applications.
- •Services with public opinion or social mobilization capabilities must undergo security assessments before deployment.
- •Final rules softened the draft: removed strict liability for pretraining data sources and dropped mandatory real-name registration requirements.
- •Establishes content safety obligations and training data quality standards as core compliance requirements.
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China: Generative AI Measures Finalized
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On July 10, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), joined by six other central government regulators, issued finalized measures aimed at regulating the provision of generative AI services, such as ChatGPT, to the public of mainland China. (Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Services.) Previously, in April, the CAC released a draft of these measures to solicit comments from the public.
The finalized measures, which still contain the word “interim” in their title, were jointly issued by the following regulators in addition to the CAC:
National Development and Reform Commission.
Ministry of Education.
Ministry of Science and Technology.
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Ministry of Public Security.
National Radio and Television Administration.
According to the measures, China’s regulatory objective concerning generative AI includes promoting its healthy development and regulated application, as well as “safeguarding national security and social public interests” and “protecting the lawful rights and interests of citizens, legal persons, and other organizations.” (Finalized Interim Measures art. 1.)
The measures apply to the use of generative AI technology to provide services that generate any text, image, audio, video, or other such content to the pub
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