{"id":1022995,"date":"2026-07-23T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022995"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:22:44","slug":"china-has-cracked-down-on-ai-companions-what-can-we-learn-from-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/23\/china-has-cracked-down-on-ai-companions-what-can-we-learn-from-this\/","title":{"rendered":"China has cracked down on AI companions. What can we learn from this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been rewriting billions of emails, student assignments, reports, and break-up text messages. Alongside these mundane uses, we&#8217;ve seen a proliferation of chatbots as AI &#8220;companions&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Users can design and clothe (or unclothe) their very own AI friend, often for a fee. These social chatbots provide &#8220;happy conversations&#8221; and a seemingly perfect relationship at the cost of the mutual vulnerability and genuine sense of belonging we gain from bonds with other humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been rewriting billions of emails, student assignments, reports, and break-up text messages. Alongside these mundane uses, we&#8217;ve seen a proliferation of chatbots as AI &#8220;companions&#8221;. Users can design and clothe (or unclothe) their very own AI friend, often for a fee. These social chatbots provide &#8220;happy conversations&#8221; and a seemingly perfect relationship at the cost of the mutual vulnerability and genuine sense of belonging we gain from bonds with other humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022995","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023020,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022995\/revisions\/1023020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}