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Beijing Pushes for AI Regulation | A campaign to control generative AI raises questions about the future of the industry in China

A campaign to control generative AI raises questions about the future of the industry in China.

But the rush of global interest in the technology in the last year, driven in large part by the publicity of generative models such as ChatGPT, has spurred worries among officials that China is falling behind U.S. competitors and that AI-generated content could overrun the country’s controlled internet environment. Initially, there was a major boom in the industry, mostly driven by money laundering: Chinese traders could buy cheap electricity to waste on crypto mining in yuan and sell the resulting product in dollars. In 2019 and 2020, U.S. diplomatic personnel captured global attention with widespread claims that symptoms from headaches to brain fog were the result of an unknown weapon used by Russia and China, dubbed “Havana syndrome” after the first cluster of incidents in Cuba.

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