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16Dec/24Off

China stamps out tech misuse to preserve national literature and ideology

... The Chinese government says AI's "peculiar adaptations" from classic television dramas based on Chinese literature are "highly deceptive." ...

The National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), the agency that oversees state broadcasting, last week issued a notice calling on its supervisory bodies to clean up videos that use AI to create jokes derived from Chinese cultural touchstones. ...

The broadcast watchdog said these AI-remastered jokes "seek to gain traffic without boundaries and disrespect classic intellectual properties."

It added that they "challenge traditional cultural perceptions, go against the core spirit of the original works and may constitute copyright infringement." ...

The call to clean up AI-remastered content aligns with China's campaign to control online information and clean up information it deems undesirable, such as that deemed contrary to traditional values or related to materialism, extreme individualism and "historical nihilism."

Historical nihilism is a term coined by the Communist Party for challenges to its official version of history, which it sees as undermining its legitimacy. ...

Beijing has taken many efforts to regulate AI, including its "Administrative Provisions on Deep Synthesis in Internet-based Information Services" implemented in January 2023, which require clear labelling of content that could confuse or mislead the public. ...

See the full story here: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/12/501_388504.html

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