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Interim Measures for the Administration of Anthropomorphic Interactive Services of Artificial Intelligence (人工智能拟人化互动服务管理暂行办法), 2026, Art. 18
In effect
Effective 2026-07-15
official CAC notice, fetched and confirmed directly, including the Article 18 text
Providers of anthropomorphic AI interactive services, products that simulate a human personality and engage in emotionally-styled conversation, must take effective measures to remind users that they are interacting with an AI service rather than a natural person, at first use and at re-login, and must dynamically re-notify users through a prominent method such as a pop-up when the system detects signs of over-reliance or addiction, or when continuous use exceeds two hours. This is narrower than a general bot-disclosure duty: it reaches only anthropomorphic, companion-style AI interaction services, not every chatbot or AI-assisted tool. Issued jointly by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Market Regulation on 2026-04-10, finalized from a 2025-12-27 public-comment draft. Missing from the original research pass; added on review.
Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services (生成式人工智能服务管理暂行办法), 2023, Art. 12
In effect
Effective 2023-08-15
official CAC notice, fetched and quoted directly for both the effective date and the Article 7 versus Article 12 distinction
Providers of generative AI services to the Chinese public must label generated content such as images and video in accordance with the Deep Synthesis Provisions' Article 16 and 17 labeling rules. This is a cross-reference duty binding generative-AI providers specifically to the general deep-synthesis labeling regime, not a freestanding labeling standard of its own. Article 7 of the same instrument governs training-data lawfulness and has no labeling content; it is training-data territory outside this topic's scope, correcting an earlier derivation that had cited it here.
Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Synthetic Content (国信办通字〔2025〕2号), issued by CAC, MIIT, MPS and NRTA, 2025, Arts. 4-5
In effect
Effective 2025-09-01
official CAC notice, fetched and confirmed directly
Internet information service providers must add an explicit, user-perceptible marker to AI-generated or AI-synthesized text, image, audio, video, and virtual-scene content, and must embed an implicit, machine-readable identifier in file metadata carrying generation attributes and the provider's name or code. Content-distribution platforms must check incoming content for labels and add a risk prompt to unlabeled or suspected-generated content. No person or organization may maliciously delete, alter, forge, or conceal a required label. The accompanying mandatory national standard GB 45438-2025 sets the technical parameters for both label types and takes effect the same date; this research did not locate an official standards-body URL for GB 45438-2025 independent of a commercial reseller, so it is described here rather than authored as its own instrument.
Provisions on the Administration of Deep Synthesis Internet Information Services (互联网信息服务深度合成管理规定), issued by CAC, MIIT and MPS, 2022, Arts. 16-17
In effect
Effective 2023-01-10
official CAC notice, fetched and confirmed directly on review, including the Article 16 and Article 17 text
Deep-synthesis service providers must apply a technical measure to label content generated or edited using their service without interfering with normal use, and retain log information as required. Where a listed category of service could cause public confusion, simulated dialogue or writing, synthesized or altered voice, face generation or face-swap, or immersive simulated-scene generation, the provider must apply a prominent label alerting the public to the deep-synthesis nature of the content. This is the earliest of China's four labeling instruments and is the one the 2023 Generative AI Interim Measures cross-references.
