China: ByteDance and Alibaba Forced to Disable AI Chatbots
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China: ByteDance and Alibaba Forced to Disable AI Chatbots
ByteDance and Alibaba are shutting down features that allow users to create and interact with personalized AI companions in response to new regulations from Beijing. According to the South China Morning Post, Doubao, China's most popular chatbot with over 300 million monthly users, will disable its persona feature on July 15. Alibaba's Qwen will remove its humanoid agents even earlier, on July 10, with "additional agent features" also going offline on July 15. Tencent's Yuanbao already made the same move in June.
The rules behind these changes were issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China in April and will take effect on the same day. Providers must warn against excessive use and intervene when they detect addictive behavior. Content that triggers extreme emotions in minors or promotes addictions at the expense of real-life relationships is prohibited. Similarly, training on sensitive conversational data is banned.
This trend is not limited to China. California has required since the beginning of the year that AI companion providers block conversations about suicide and self-harm under SB 243. In the United States, OpenAI and Character.AI are facing lawsuits for dangerous emotional dependency.
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