China: Cyberspace Administration of China imposed warnings, rectification orders and app-store removals in investigation into mobile internet applications over non-compliance with the Measures for the Identification of AI-Generated and Synthesised Content

On 25 November 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a ruling in its investigation into mobile internet applications that failed to comply with requirements for the identification of AI-generated and synthesised content, stating that penalties including warnings, orders to rectify within a specified period and removal from app stores were imposed in accordance with laws and regulations. The ruling identified that AI-generated composite service providers failed to add explicit identifiers to generated composite content, failed to add explicit identifiers to exported files, failed to add implicit identifiers containing production-element information including attribute information, service-provider name or code and content number to file metadata and failed to standardise the placement of implicit identifiers. It further identified that network information content dissemination service providers failed to implement implicit-identification verification, failed to add prominent warning labels around published content, failed to add attribute information, dissemination-platform name or code, content code and other dissemination-element information to file metadata and failed to provide users with the function of declaring the generation of synthetic content. The ruling referenced the Measures for the Identification of AI-Generated and Synthesised Content and stated that website platforms must strictly implement identification requirements and strengthen detection and mutual-recognition capabilities.