ChinaInterim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services, Article 12
Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services (生成式人工智能服务管理暂行办法), 2023, Art. 12
In force since .
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Market targeting
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Label generated images, video, and comparable output if you offer generative AI services to the public in China
- Follow the Deep Synthesis Provisions' Articles 16 and 17 for how to label, rather than a separate standard of your own
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MEASURE 2.8Risks associated with transparency and accountability – as identified in the MAP function – are examined and documented.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does 图片、视频等 ("images, videos and the like") extend the Article 12 labeling duty to generated text and audio?
- Does 按照《互联网信息服务深度合成管理规定》 ("in accordance with the Provisions on the Administration of Deep Synthesis Internet Information Services") import both the technical label of Article 16 and the prominent label of Article 17 of those Provisions?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 12 requires a generative AI provider to label generated images, video, and comparable output in accordance with the Deep Synthesis Provisions' Articles 16 and 17; it states no logging or record-keeping duty of its own. Article 14 of the same Measures separately requires a provider to preserve records on discovering a user's illegal activity, and Article 19 gives the competent authorities an on-request inspection power over training-data and algorithm information; neither sits within Article 12's own text.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Providers of generative AI services to the Chinese public must label generated content such as images and video in accordance with the Deep Synthesis Provisions' Article 16 and 17 labeling rules. This is a cross-reference duty binding generative-AI providers specifically to the general deep-synthesis labeling regime, not a freestanding labeling standard of its own.
Article 7 of the same instrument governs training-data lawfulness and has no labeling content; it is training-data territory outside this topic's scope, correcting an earlier derivation that had cited it here.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates content with AI or deploys a chatbot.
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