Astroturfing in general in China is significantly harder, because for basically every internet account you need a Chinese mobile phone number, and getting that number is difficult if you can’t prove that you’re a real person. Mobile number and identity are tightly coupled in China, far more so than the West. So while real people might still make and post AI slop, there’s significantly less AI slop made by AI accounts because it’s very very hard to make an AI account.
On Xiaohongshu they tend to have more strict rules about labeling something as AI. They also require influencers to provide credentials before they’re allowed to speak on certain topics like medicine, law, etc. Generally speaking, they tend to be much more strict when it comes to publishing misleading stuff, so AI content isn’t banned completely, but it’s much less pervasive and annoying than you’d see on western platforms.
Is China’s social media monetized like the West? Because that seems to be the root problem. People want to generate content to get money and AI is the easiest way to generate tons of slop.
You must be mistaken, the capitalist system solves problems. How could it possibly be the root of this problem?
I’m not sure about like in the west but it’s definitely monetized. Xiaohongshu and Douyin are both ecommerce platforms as well as social media platforms.
Plenty of slop is dumb boomers or techbros, some people are into it just for the love of the game
Definitely at least partially. When I was there last, Baidu maps and Alipay were pushing shitty ‘helpful’ AI agents on me at every turn.
