ByteDance’s Doubao app has overtaken DeepSeek to become the most popular AI chatbot in China, drawing tens of millions of monthly active users. Designed with a friendly avatar and deep integration with Douyin, Doubao offers text, audio, video, image generation and customizable agents. Analysts credit ByteDance’s expertise in viral app design and seamless cross‑platform sharing for Doubao’s rapid growth, while DeepSeek remains a more minimalist text‑only service. The company is now exploring extensions of Doubao into smart glasses, cars and other devices, signalling an ambition to broaden the AI assistant beyond smartphones. Leia mais →

Major Chinese social media services—including WeChat, Douyin, Weibo and RedNote—have begun applying mandatory labels to posts that contain AI-generated text, images, audio or video. The move follows new legislation drafted by several government agencies to improve transparency around generative AI material. Users are required to label their own AI‑created content and are prohibited from removing or tampering with platform‑applied labels. The platforms also offer tools for reporting unlabelled AI material. Similar labeling in the United States is noted as a parallel development. Leia mais →

Major Chinese social media services—including WeChat, Douyin, Weibo and RedNote—have begun applying mandatory labels to posts that contain AI-generated text, images, audio or video. The move follows new legislation drafted by several government agencies to improve transparency around generative AI material. Users are required to label their own AI‑created content and are prohibited from removing or tampering with platform‑applied labels. The platforms also offer tools for reporting unlabelled AI material. Similar labeling in the United States is noted as a parallel development. Leia mais →

Major Chinese social media services—including WeChat, Douyin, Weibo and RedNote—have begun applying mandatory labels to posts that contain AI-generated text, images, audio or video. The move follows new legislation drafted by several government agencies to improve transparency around generative AI material. Users are required to label their own AI‑created content and are prohibited from removing or tampering with platform‑applied labels. The platforms also offer tools for reporting unlabelled AI material. Similar labeling in the United States is noted as a parallel development. Leia mais →

Major Chinese social media services—including WeChat, Douyin, Weibo and RedNote—have begun applying mandatory labels to posts that contain AI-generated text, images, audio or video. The move follows new legislation drafted by several government agencies to improve transparency around generative AI material. Users are required to label their own AI‑created content and are prohibited from removing or tampering with platform‑applied labels. The platforms also offer tools for reporting unlabelled AI material. Similar labeling in the United States is noted as a parallel development. Leia mais →

Major Chinese social media services—including WeChat, Douyin, Weibo and RedNote—have begun applying mandatory labels to posts that contain AI-generated text, images, audio or video. The move follows new legislation drafted by several government agencies to improve transparency around generative AI material. Users are required to label their own AI‑created content and are prohibited from removing or tampering with platform‑applied labels. The platforms also offer tools for reporting unlabelled AI material. Similar labeling in the United States is noted as a parallel development. Leia mais →