A response in Chinese by ChatGPT, an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, is seen on its website in this illustration picture taken Feb. 9, 2023. Florence Lo/Illustration/Reuters
China’s media regulator launched a month-long campaign starting Jan. 1 to crack down on what the communist regime describes as AI-altered video content, further tightening controls on short-form videos and AI-generated media.
On Dec. 31, 2025, Chinese state media reported that the campaign, announced by the National Radio and Television Administration, targets the use of AI to substantially modify existing images, videos, audio, or text—practices commonly known in China as “AI magic editing.”
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