Shanghai ((Reuters)) – The China’s securities watchdog will intensify the surveillance of false stock market information and work with police and cyberspace regulators to repress those who disseminate false news, which is facilitated by AI, the official media said on Saturday.
The regulators “strike early, strike hard and strike at the heart” of the issue, said the Times Securities.
Artificial intelligence has become a new tool to create and disseminate misleading information to investors or manipulate actions, attracting investors who have the prospect of becoming rich quickly, said Shanghai Securities News in a separate article.
The rise in power of the Chinese IA company Deepseek has prompted retail investors and fund managers to adopt AI to help them assess companies and invest, but their adoption of technology also increases the risks they will become vulnerable to false news created by artificial intelligence.
The Securities Times said that China Securities Regulatory Commission would be more proactive in the dissipation of stock market rumors by issuing clarifications and would strengthen the education and investor advice to “improve the capacity of investors to identify” false information.
The reports of the Securities Times and the Shanghai Securities News coincide with the annual annual day of consumer consumer rights of March 15, which has become a major television and social media event in China to promote consumer protection.
(Report by Shanghai Newsroom; edition by Susan Fenton)
