{"id":71324,"date":"2022-12-12T13:32:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71324"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:00:15","slug":"china-bans-deepfakes-that-threaten-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/china-bans-deepfakes-that-threaten-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"China bans deepfakes that threaten national security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published rules banning the creation of deepfakes without the subject&#8217;s consent or to harm national interests. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/12\/12\/china_deep_synthesis_deepfake_regulation\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener nofollow\\\" title=\\\"\\\">The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, the definition of national security encompasses anything that contradicts socialist values. Also, any form of &#8220;harmful information&#8221; or use of digital forgeries in an attempt to deceive or defame a person or group will also be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the regulator expects more deepfakes in coming years, for example in chatbot contexts. In such scenarios, neural forgeries should be marked as digital creations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, outlets that use deepfakes online must comply with many other Chinese rules governing acceptable content.<\/p>\n<p>Creators of fakes, dubbed &#8216;deep-synthesis service providers&#8217;, must ensure the accuracy of artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms. The document obliges them to review regularly and ensure the security of the data collected.<\/p>\n<p>The rules also include a requirement to register users, including their real names.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\n&#8220;[Deepfakes] should contribute to the healthy development of information services on the internet and support a healthy cyberspace ecology,&#8221; the document states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The rules will take effect on January 10, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Chinese government introduced a bill to curb <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/china-proposes-framework-for-regulating-deepfakes\">manufacture and dissemination of deepfakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, the CAC approved <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/china-approves-rules-governing-recommendation-algorithms\">rules regulating recommender systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the regulator announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/china-regulator-to-scrutinise-recommendation-algorithms-of-tech-giants\">broad audit of algorithms<\/a> for major websites, platforms and products that have a large influence on internet audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener nofollow\\\" title=\\\"\\\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cyberspace Administration of China published rules prohibiting the creation of deepfakes without the subject&#8217;s consent or to harm national interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,133,1250,36],"class_list":["post-71324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-deepfakes","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71326,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71324\/revisions\/71326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}