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  "path": "/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#6_May_2026_(China_regulations_on_Pretend_Intelligence_chatbots)",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T20:37:13.000Z",
  "site": "https://stallman.org",
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    "impose strict regulations"
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  "textContent": "China will impose strict regulations on Pretend Intelligence chatbots that have conversations about suicide — a human must be notified to intervene.\n\nOther things that chatbots will be prohibited from doing include encouraging violence, and emotional manipulation, and promoting \"obscenity\", gambling and crime, and misleading users.\n\nAn intelligent being can try to apply such rules because it can understands, more or less, the meaning of its communications. (Although it is not easy even for an intelligent being to understand reliably what a communication might imply to another intelligent being.)\n\nA pretend intelligence will have trouble applying such rules beyond a superficial manner, because it is not capable of such understanding. It might have a discussion of \"getting off this mortal coil\" or \"the big sleep\" and not detect that as a reference to suicide or death.\n\nAside from that, I would expect that these rules will be interpreted by China as restricting discussion of political issues that lead to criticizing China. Alas, the US might restrict discussions of fascism and democracy, a few years from now.",
  "title": "China regulations on Pretend Intelligence chatbots"
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