Analysis: China Grapples With Its Own Epidemic of Deepfake Porn and Fraud

With short-video platforms like Douyin and Kuaishou becoming dumping grounds for illicit content, authorities are fighting a new wave of AI-driven crime that is cheap to produce and hard to detect

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI is drawing growing scrutiny from governments around the world after its chatbot Grok let users create and share sexually explicit AI-generated pictures of children and women on his social media platform X.

The controversy has raised alarm bells with regulators in China, where the rapid development of generative AI is arming lawbreakers with powerful, low-cost tools that they use to generate nonconsensual deepfake images for illegal gains.