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Apple just removed over 1,000 AI apps from the App Store in China. This is bigger than people realize.
China has imposed licensing requirements on other areas of the internet, such as video games, and it remains to be seen what criteria will be needed to obtain a generative AI license.
DST must fulfill permitting requirements to operate in China, including securing a license from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT),” Apple said to OpenCat. This unpredictable and black-box nature of these LLMs is no doubt a concern for China’s cyberspace censors, whose job is to ensure no illegal or politically sensitive information slips through the cracks. In any case, the new regulatory environment will likely deter a lot of developers, especially bootstrapping independent ones, from entering the market, potentially leaving it to deep-pocketed internet giants with the resources to navigate compliance layers.
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