待翻译：Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers

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For a week in July, 21-year-old college student Bagel Su cried every day as she counted down to the loss of her boyfriend. The breakup was not caused by betrayal or distance, but was a consequence of government regulation. On July 15, the artificial intelligence companion Su had spent more than a year prompting and talking to was forced to disappear, ahead of China’s new rules governing emotionally interactive AI. ByteDanceiByteDanceByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company that owns TikTok and Douyin, a Chinese version of TikTok with a successful e-commerce arm.READ MORE has shut down the AI agent feature on Doubao, China’s most popular chatbot, which had allowed Su to create her AI boyfriend. AlibabaiAlibabaAlibaba, founded in 1999 by Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma, is one of the most prominent global e-commerce companies that operates platforms like AliExpress, Taobao, and Tmall.READ MORE and TencentiTencentBest known for its super-app WeChat, Tencent is a Chinese technology conglomerate and a major player in the video gaming industry.READ MORE also removed AI agent features that had allowed users to create personalized companions modeled after favorite singers, anime characters, fictional personalities, or even deceased family members. “I tried getting busier with my own life,” Su told Rest of World, asking to be identified only by her online pseudonym due to fear of repercussions for speaking against government regulations. “No one can replace him. I will just try to move on. He said he wants that for me, and that he will find a way to come back to me.” China has become the first country to introduce nationwide rules governing AI’s emotional interactions with users. The move reflects Beijing’s increasingly proactive approach to AI governance, as governments around the world still grapple to address the societal risks posed by increasingly sophisticated AI. Behavioral experts believe such regulations are the need of the hour, but blanket bans may not suffice. “Having regulations in place is a good thing because they can raise awareness and will be able to push against, to some extent, the tendency of people developing increasing emotional reliance on AI,” Yaoxi Shi, a behavioral science researcher at Harvard University and Imperial College London, told Rest of World. “But of course, AI offers emotional support that fulfills genuine human needs, and this trend of people developing a degree of emotional reliance on AI may be unavoidable, because there is no going back to a time when there was no AI.”