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China’s cyberspace regulator has issued draft rules for AI services that provide “human-like” interactions.
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Lim Min Zhang
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Published Jan 08, 2026, 05:00 PM
Updated Jan 08, 2026, 05:41 PM
BEIJING – Once users open up Xingye, one of China’s top artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot apps, they can browse from a seemingly endless number of virtual personas to interact with.
They range from an intelligent and aloof CEO wife from Shanghai, to a classmate who is an oil painting major with a “rebellious” mullet hairstyle. There is also one named Li Bai, after the famed Tang Dynasty poet.
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