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    CN GenAI Measures

    Defines the licensing-style model of GenAI regulation — hundreds of models have completed filings, giving the state a registry and approval gate over the sector that contrasts sharply with Western transparency-based approaches.

    What it is

    The world's first binding generative-AI regulation: public-facing GenAI services must undergo security assessment and algorithm filing, ensure training-data legality, label AI content, and uphold 'core socialist values' in outputs.

    Who is affected

    Defines the licensing-style model of GenAI regulation — hundreds of models have completed filings, giving the state a registry and approval gate over the sector that contrasts sharply with Western transparency-based approaches.

    Key obligations

    • Security assessment + algorithm filing before public launch
    • Training data legality and IP compliance; content moderation of outputs
    • AI-generated content labeling

    Recent signals

    • 17 July 2026

      China releases international AI ethics governance action plan at WAIC 2026

      Building on its 2025 Global AI Governance Action Plan and the proposed World AI Cooperation Organization, China extends its bid to shape multilateral AI ethics norms.

    • 1 September 2025

      China's AI-content labeling measures take effect

      All AI-generated content must carry explicit and implicit labels, with platform verification duties — the world's most comprehensive provenance mandate in operation.

    • 26 July 2025

      China proposes World AI Cooperation Organization at WAIC

      The Global AI Governance Action Plan and a Shanghai-based multilateral body mark China's most ambitious governance-export move.

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