China Wants Red Flags on All AI-generated Content Posted Online 55
China's internet regulator has proposed a strict regime that will, if adopted, require digital platforms to label content created by AI. From a report: The Cyberspace Administration of China announced its draft plan, which will require platforms and online service providers to label all AI-generated material with a visible logo and with metadata embedded in relevant files. The draft proposes that logos appear in several locations in a text, image, video, or audio file. In audio files, Beijing wants a voice prompt to inform listeners about AI-generated content at the start and end of a file -- and, as appropriate, mid-file too. Software that plays audio files will also need to inform netizens when they tune in to AI content.
Video players can get away with just posting notices about the content at the start, end, and relevant moments during a clip. Netizens who post AI-generated content will be required to label it as such. If they use generation tools provided by a platform, they'll be required to identify themselves -- and a log of their activities will be retained for six months. Some labels denoting AI-made content will be applied dynamically, based on metadata embedded in AI-generated content.
Video players can get away with just posting notices about the content at the start, end, and relevant moments during a clip. Netizens who post AI-generated content will be required to label it as such. If they use generation tools provided by a platform, they'll be required to identify themselves -- and a log of their activities will be retained for six months. Some labels denoting AI-made content will be applied dynamically, based on metadata embedded in AI-generated content.
Good (Score:5, Insightful)
Now, why is China here the one that does the right thing and the oh-so-righteous west lags behind?
I don't think they mean to include them. (Score:3)
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Yup. China certainly won't be putting flags on the AI propaganda that they generate.
Re: Good (Score:2)
China attempts to control all information. There can be benefits to this sort of thing, but overall we don't buy into it.
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Especially if they want to use AI generated images without the flagging so you'll assume it can't be fake.
Missing the point (Score:3)
Expect that 99.9995% of all internet content will be AI generated. By sheer volume, any sentient analysis of them will fail to find useful information.
It will make the internet near unusable as the chance of finding accurate data or factual content will be so low and drive internet users away.
Same as when a well known musician release dozens of cover albums, at some point no one will care or listen.
Makes total sense. You're a Communist. (Score:1)
Re: Makes total sense. You're a Communist. (Score:1)
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As an anti-misinformation measure I fully support this and thank China for leading the way. But do not expect that the CCP will follow this law when it comes to their own information operations.
It's actually more likely that if western governments had AI watermarking laws, they would follow them, since they know (or, at least, are slowly learning) that disinformation doesn't pay once it is uncovered. China can simply censor Chinese who discover and spread news of a CCP disinfo operation (or, as a last re
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It would be extremely unusual if any government applied these kinds of laws to itself. Even in Europe, if you look at things like the ECHR, they basically say that "national security" overrides most things.
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Because without China being the enemy, a whole slew of business and politicians would be losing out on income.
Re: Good (Score:2)
The cynic in me says this is part of the broader Chinese effort to promulgate their regulatory concept on to the broader Internet and not a noble desire to reduce the harm that AI modified images can cause
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Now, why is China here the one that does the right thing and the oh-so-righteous west lags behind?
How is this the right thing? What qualifies as AI generated? What happens if I use AI for edge detection in a fill routine? Is that AI generated art? If so, literally everything will have to have the label which will render it useless because many creative tool flows have some sort of AI in them to assist.
I for one, would welcome this (Score:3)
I would welcome this, if only so that I could filter out all the shitty AI generated art currently flooding the internet.
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Exactly.
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Are you gonna need trigger warnings and flags for Photoshopped images, too?
No, Photoshopped images are nowhere near as low quality, irritating, or pervasive as the uniformly awful AI generated garbage.
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But they are similarly fictitious. If you just want high-quality bullshit, I feel like just waiting for the quality to improve is going to be more effective than instituting flagging.
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Re: I for one, would welcome this (Score:2)
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Maybe AI can filter out the shitty AI generated art? It can be an AI death match
But what if AI starts filtering out Adobe's stock photo gallery since these days it mostly consists of AI generate crap art ... oh, wait, never mind, that's not a bug it's a feature.
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Evil bit returns (Score:3)
I agree (Score:2)
We need cryptographically secure identification of AI generated images and text. They can be cool and fun, but should be labelled accurately
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what is meant by a "strict regime"? (Score:2)
"China's internet regulator has proposed a strict regime..."
If it was the US government proposing this, would it be described as a "strict regime"? What does this mean exactly?
Well it is their internet, not ours. (Score:2)
Our internet works a little differently. In return for the freedom of speech which our internet provides, we have to put up with and remain vigilant against the low-intelligence and criminal elements. They're fairly easy to spot, so I think I'll keep our internet and let China have theirs. They've already done the hard work of isolating their internet from ours, perhaps we should return the favor. Until then, you can feel free to surf the Chinese internet instead of ours, if you like. Any (non-governme
"China wants RED FLAGS" (Score:1)
Because ... China?
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Little red flags that say Made in China on all AI content. Because it's inevitable that China is going to be the AI leader.
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As well as developing the hardware needed for AI domestically, China is way ahead of us on renewable energy deployment. They are already advertising services as greener because they can power them with wind and sunshine instead of gas.
Red Flags (Score:5, Funny)
Aren't *most* flags in China red?
Yes, yes. I'll see myself out.
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Aren't *most* flags in China red?
Yes, yes. I'll see myself out.
Yeah, so red flagged content is good in China? Meaning red flagged AI content is approved by the government?
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Good point. Using my babelfishing skills, it seems that "red flag" translates to Chinese as "danger signal".
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Aren't *most* flags in China red?
Yes, yes. I'll see myself out.
That makes you Yellow , and now we can source the Supremacy of Orange aka Oompa-Loompa Luminosity.
Wait... (Score:2)
In China, aren 't "red flags" a *good* thing?
This whole story's just a red herring. (Score:2)
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just ftr, bulls are color blind, they react to movement. the red color for the capote is just for the pleasure of the human sadistic sick fucks that watch the spectacle.
This is the material. WORK with me, here! (Score:2)
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oh, you were trying to be fun? beg you pardon, continue, smash that climax.
Red China is going all in on being Red! (Score:2)
Red China is going all in on being Red!
Me Chinese, me play joke Me put peepee in your Co (Score:2)
Me Chinese, me play joke Me put peepee in your Coke.
Not chinese but... (Score:2)
I actually think this is a good idea.
I mean just from playing around with AI you soon discover that it often very authoritatively states something that is actually completely false.
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you soon discover that it often very authoritatively states something that is actually completely false.
...as do politicians and random assholes on the internets.
If you fail at critical thinking, what difference does it make?
LLM != AI. The problem is the media and... welll.. humanity in general. But that is not a new problem.
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I think the idea is that we need to move to something better, not the same or worse.
Start from One (Score:1)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
-- First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Re: Start from One (Score:2)
what kind of Red Flag (Score:2)
this kind
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It supposed to be a china flag emoji aka
Unicode Code Points U+1F1E8
U+1F1F3
HTML Entities
CSS \01f1e8\01f1f3
JavaScript (JSON) & Java \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3
PHP & Ruby \u{1f1e8}\u{1f1f3}
Perl \x{1f1e8}\x{1f1f3}
I like the idea, but.. (Score:2)
I like the idea but I'd probably do it a bit differently. I'd focus on the AI software instead of the users. It should be impossible for end-users to accidentally fail compliance. The software should watermark by default, and failure shouldn't result in punishment of end-users, but a requirement for the company and/or social media platform to pull down the offending content. Of course there should also be a way to turn off the watermarks, but only by jumping through some hoops. Film makers need to be a