AI Fake News: China Not Happy

The Chinese government has declared that AI produced news will be required to disclaim the fact that it is indeed AI manufactured. This will make fake news produced by AI a criminal offence.



The new law will come into affect January 1, 2020. The main concern stemming from the fake news generated by AI is the production of "deepfakes." Or, in other words, the merging and splicing of video and audio to produce news that never occurred. This direction is credited in large part to the presidential election of the U.S in 2016, where the emergence of fake news caused shock waves across the globe.

The Al Jazeera Article