“As with other types of internet services in China, from games to social media, users are asked to verify their names before using generative AI apps.”
Baidu’s ERNIE-ViLG has 10 billion parameters, 145 million Chinese image-text pairs, and a filter for politically sensitive keywords. Beijing’s new “deep synthesis” rules tie every prompt to a verified real name. The regulation gets sold as a ban on AI fake news. A traceable prompt box is a censorship tool, whatever it says on the label.