{"id":1021850,"date":"2026-07-17T10:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021850"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:50:57","slug":"china-listens-to-elon-musk-tells-tech-companies-make-sure-right-away-that-chinese-need-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/china-listens-to-elon-musk-tells-tech-companies-make-sure-right-away-that-chinese-need-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018listens\u2019 to Elon Musk, tells tech companies, make sure right away that: Chinese need to stop \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government has launched a crackdown on virtual romance, driven by an urgent demographic mission \u2013 it wants its citizens to stop dating artificial intelligence (AI) and start having human babies. China officially enacted rules that completely forbid AI chatbots designed for companionship from encouraging \u201cemotional reliance\u201d among users, as per a report by The Wall Street Journal. The decision sits squarely alongside Elon Musk\u2019s repeated warnings about population collapse threatening the future of civilisation.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that China\u2019s population shrank in 2025 for the fourth straight year, to 1.405 billion, and its birthrate fell to a record low. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government has launched a crackdown on virtual romance, driven by an urgent demographic mission \u2013 it wants its citizens to stop dating artificial intelligence (AI) and start having human babies. China officially enacted rules that completely forbid AI chatbots designed for companionship from encouraging \u201cemotional reliance\u201d among users, as per a report by The Wall Street Journal. The decision sits squarely alongside Elon Musk\u2019s repeated warnings about population collapse threatening the future of civilisation. The report said that China\u2019s population shrank in 2025 for the fourth straight year, to 1.405 billion, and its birthrate fell to a record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021851,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021850\/revisions\/1021851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}