Following the censorship of the thoughts of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, the Chinese government has also begun imposing sanctions on some parodies of classic images created by AI. The rationale is that it “goes against the spirit of China.”
The South China Morning Post reported on the ninth that China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) ordered short-form video platform operators akin to Douyin and Kuaishou to scrub up ‘unusual adaptations’ of classic movies or TV dramas produced with generative AI technology. reported.
Last weekend’s notice took issue with some AI videos, including one wherein Son Goku, the protagonist of the Sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, rides a motorbike. The reason is, “It went against the unique spirit of the classic and violated the rights of the classic.”
Recently, Son Goku, famous for ‘Monkey King’, is gaining great popularity again with the video game ‘Black Miss: Goku’ released this 12 months. Nevertheless, it is thought that among the many videos created based on this, there are images of him riding a motorbike in addition to kissing a girl. It’s identified that it is a problem within the Buddhist world as well.
NRTA was ordered to remove such videos and report the situation by the tenth. It also required platforms to “strictly adhere to requirements for reviewing generated AI content and clearly label content.”
This crackdown is geared toward regulating video generation AI, which has recently been pouring out of China following the Large Language Model (LLM). After the discharge of Open AI’s ‘Sora’ in February, China even urged the federal government to meet up with the US on this field.
Regulations on generative AI in China have already begun in earnest with the implementation of the ‘Temporary Measures for Management of Generative AI Services’ in August last 12 months. This instructs generative AI firms to take care of socialist values. For that reason, all generative AI platforms operating in China must undergo prior censorship by regulators.
For this reason, it is rather difficult for overseas AI services to pass Chinese censorship, and Apple is having difficulty installing Apple Intelligence on the iPhone as a consequence of this problem.
Meanwhile, in July, it was reported that the Chinese government was also censoring video creation models.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
