ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
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- ByteDance and Alibaba will disable humanlike and user-created agents on their Doubao and Qwen apps before a July 15 deadline triggered by China's new anthropomorphic AI interaction rules
- The two apps are described as two of China's major consumer-facing artificial intelligence applications, making them the highest-profile targets of the rules so far
Why it matters: ByteDance and Alibaba must remove humanlike and user-created agent features from Doubao and Qwen by July 15, the first hard compliance deadline for Chinese consumer AI under the new anthropomorphic interaction rules. With two of China's most widely used consumer-facing AI products affected, the action sets a concrete benchmark the rest of the sector must meet.
