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WeChat doesn’t want to be a slop machine

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What happened: On April 9, Tencent's WeChat added new rules governing AI generated content posted by public-facing accounts. The deets: AI cannot be used to “replace real humans” in content creation. The company has explicitly banned:

Generating, rewriting, splicing, or transferring content using a...