Original sourceCrypto Briefing
Summary
China formally implemented the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services, the world's first national-level regulation targeting AI services that provide sustained emotional interaction. The framework requires services to clearly disclose that users are inter…
Key points
- This is the world's first national rule to make 'emotional dependence' a regulatory target; teams building AI companions, virtual characters, or social products must reexamine disclosure, duration reminders, and age-gate design.
- China is first to bring AI emotional interaction under national regulation, potentially becoming a legislative template for other jurisdictions and directly changing compliance thresholds for companion AI products.
- AI companion products operating in or planning to enter China must add identity disclosure, two-hour reminders, and minor restrictions; developers that fail to adjust face takedown or feature disablement risk.
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