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China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata.
(english.news.cn)
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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As an exception to most regulations that we hear about from China, this approach actually seems well considered - something that might benefit people and work.
Similar regulations should be considered by other countries. Labeling generated content at the source, hopefully without the metadata being too extensive (this is where China might go off the handle) would help avoid at least two things: