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Later this month, new rules in China targeting AI companions that take on human-like personas have caused ByteDance and Alibaba to take down their AI companion chatbot features.
The rules are intended to reduce the risk of people forming unhealthy emotional attachments to AI chatbots. Good policy.
https://qz.com/bytedance-alibaba-ai-companion-chatbot-china-rules-070626Published at
2026-07-07 22:38:05 CESTEvent JSON
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