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China has released new guidelines on generative AI services, limiting their public use while encouraging industrial development.

Reuters reported the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) softened its stance compared to draft rules in April. These new interim regulations will take effect on August 15th. The guidelines only affect organizations offering generative AI services to the public. Other entities developing the same technology but not for mass-market use do not fall under the measures.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

China has successfully reverted anything remotely socialist about the country over the last 40 years.

Again, I think the situation is more complicated than you give it credit for.

I am not a believer in Deng Xiaoping. I believe he was basically a Chinese Gorbachev, and attempted to destroy Socialism in China through Liberal reforms. The difference between the USSR and China is that, in China, they missed the "Yeltsin coups the government" step. They tried, in the June 4th Incident, and failed. And now that most of the grifters are dead or dying, we're left with the principled Socialists who believe in Socialism with Chinese Characteristics; and it turns out that, so long as the Communist Party maintains its integrity (and, by and large, it has), the building of Productive Forces through a mixed-system economy is actually really great. It's what Gorbachev wanted for the USSR before Yeltsin's coup.

China is still in the early stages of their transition from a market system to a Socialist one, but they have made great strides in this regard. They've nationalized industries, they're building trade infrastructure with other countries to rival the West, they actually enforce anti-corruption laws, they've completely eradicated extreme poverty. They've eliminated privatized schooling, they're constantly modernizing rural life by moving villagers to apartment complexes and single-family suburban homes. Xi Jinping grew up in a cave sleeping on a stone bed - heated with a dung fire - with his entire extended family. Now these sorts of living arrangements are preserved to be toured by newer generations as "how your grandfather used to live". This is the success of Socialism in China.