Chinese Chatbots Remove AI Agent Features

Alibaba Group and ByteDance will stop offering their chatbot apps’ features that enable users to create their own personalized AI agents, as Beijing prepares to enforce new rules on humanlike AI interactions. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 #Digital Wellness 📱🧘 ByteDance’s Doubao, China’s most popular #Artificial Intelligence app by users, and its rival Qwen from Alibaba, will both take their user-generated AI agent features offline by July 15, when the new government regulations take effect, according to the notifications the two apps sent to users over the weekend. Tencent’s Yuanbao chatbot app already stopped offering a similar feature last month. Those apps can continue to offer non-personalized AI agent features that perform tasks such as food delivery orders and travel booking. Chinese regulators in April announced new regulations on AI products that simulate human personality, thinking patterns and communication styles to create emotional interactions. The new regulations exclude other AI products such as customer service bots, workplace assistants and tools for education and research. https://asia.nikkei.com/b..