---
title_en: "Provisions on the Administration of Deep Synthesis of Internet Information Services"
title_zh: "互联网信息服务深度合成管理规定"
hierarchy: "rule"
issuing_body: "CAC, MIIT, MPS"
adopted_date: 2022-11-03
effective_date: 2023-01-10
status: "effective"
related_laws: ["pipl", "algorithmic-recommendation-provisions", "genai-services-interim-measures"]
domains: ["ai-governance", "algorithm-recommendation"]
url: https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/deep-synthesis-provisions/
summary: "Regulates deepfakes and AI-driven content synthesis — the precursor to the GenAI Measures and the AI Content Labeling Measures. Requires real-name verification, content moderation, prominent labeling of synthesized content, prohibits use for fraud or disinformation, and establishes the deep synthesis service algorithm filing regime."
---
**Promulgated by:** CAC, MIIT, MPS.  
**Document No.:** Order No. 12 of CAC, MIIT, and MPS (jointly).  
**Adopted at the 21st executive meeting of the CAC in 2022 on November 3, 2022. Effective January 10, 2023.**

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## Chapter I General Provisions

**Article 1.** These Provisions are enacted in accordance with the Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China, the Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Personal Information, the Administrative Measures on Internet-based Information Services and other laws and administrative regulations for the purpose of strengthening the deep synthesis management of Internet-based information services, carrying forward socialist core values, safeguarding national security and public interests, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations.

**Article 2.** These Provisions shall apply to the application of deep synthesis technology to provide Internet-based information services (hereinafter referred to as the "deep synthesis services") within the territory of the People's Republic of China. Where the laws and administrative regulations stipulate otherwise, such provisions shall prevail.

**Article 3.** The Cyberspace Administration of China shall be responsible for overall planning and coordination of the governance of deep synthesis services nationwide and the relevant supervision and administration thereof. The telecommunications departments and the public security departments of the State Council shall be responsible for the supervision and administration of deep synthesis services according to their respective duties. Local cyberspace administrations shall be responsible for the overall planning and coordination of the governance of deep synthesis services within their respective administrative regions and the relevant supervision and administration thereof. Local competent telecommunications authorities and public security authorities shall be responsible for the supervision and administration of deep synthesis services within their respective administrative regions according to their respective duties.

**Article 4.** The provision of deep synthesis services shall comply with laws and regulations, respect social morality, ethics and morality, adhere to the correct political direction, public opinion guidance and value orientation, and promote positive and upright deep synthesis services.

**Article 5.** The relevant industry organizations are encouraged to strengthen industry self-regulation, establish sound industry standards, industry guidelines and self-regulation management system, and urge and guide deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters to formulate and improve business standards, carry out business in accordance with the law and accept social supervision.

## Chapter II General Provisions

**Article 6.** No organization or individual may take advantage of deep synthesis services to produce, reproduce, release or disseminate information prohibited by laws and administrative regulations, or take advantage of deep synthesis services to engage in activities prohibited by laws and administrative regulations that endanger national security and interests, damage the national image, infringe upon public interests, disturb economic and social order, or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of others. Deep synthesis service providers and users shall not take advantage of deep synthesis services to produce, reproduce, release or disseminate false news information. Where news information produced and released based on deep synthesis services is to be reproduced, the news information released by an entity that sources news manuscripts on the Internet shall be reproduced in accordance with the law.

**Article 7.** Deep synthesis service providers shall implement principal responsibility for information security, establish sound management systems for user registration, algorithmic mechanism review, scientific and technological ethics review, information release review, data security, personal information protection, anti-telecommunication and Internet fraud, emergency response and other management systems, and have safe and controllable technical support measures in place.

**Article 8.** Deep synthesis service providers shall formulate and disclose management regulations and platform conventions, improve service agreements, fulfill management responsibilities in accordance with laws and contracts, and remind technical supporters and users of deep synthesis services in a prominent manner to assume information security obligations.

**Article 9.** Deep synthesis service providers shall authenticate the real identity information of deep synthesis service users in accordance with the law on the basis of mobile phone numbers, ID numbers, unified social credit codes, national network identity authentication public services or other manners, and shall not provide information publishing services for deep synthesis service users who have not gone through the authentication of their real identity information.

**Article 10.** Deep synthesis service providers shall strengthen the management of deep synthesis contents, and examine and verify the data input by deep synthesis service users and synthesis results by technical or manual means. Deep synthesis service providers shall establish the sound characteristics database for identifying illegal and malicious information, improve the criteria, rules and procedures for entry into database, and record and retain the relevant web logs. If any illegal and malicious information is found out, the deep synthesis service provider concerned shall take disposal measures in accordance with the law, keep the relevant records, and promptly report the case to the cyberspace administration and the relevant competent authorities; and the deep synthesis service provider shall, in accordance with the law or as agreed, take disposal measures such as warning, restricting functions, suspending services and closing accounts against the relevant deep synthesis service users.

**Article 11.** Deep synthesis service providers shall establish a sound mechanism to refute rumors. If any false information is produced, reproduced, released or disseminated by using deep synthesis services, the deep synthesis service provider concerned shall take measures to refute rumors in a timely manner, keep the relevant records, and report the case to the cyberspace administration and the relevant competent authorities.

**Article 12.** Deep synthesis service providers shall set up a convenient portal for user complaints, complaints and reports from the public, announce the handling process and feedback time limit, and promptly accept and process complaints and provide feedback on the handling results.

**Article 13.** The internet application stores and other application distribution platforms shall implement security management responsibilities including the review of the applications on shelves, routine management, emergency responses, etc., and verify the security assessment, record-filing and other conditions of the applications for deep synthesis; in the event of any violation of the relevant provisions of the State, they shall take disposal measures in a timely manner, such as refusal to put the applications on shelves, warning, service suspension or removal.

## Chapter III Specifications for Data and Technical Management

**Article 14.** Deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters shall strengthen the management of training data and take necessary measures to ensure the safety of training data; if training data contains personal information, the relevant provisions on the protection of personal information shall be complied with. Where a deep synthesis service provider or technical supporter provides the function of editing face, voice or other biometric information, it shall prompt the deep synthesis service user to inform the individual to be edited in accordance with the law and obtain his/her separate consent.

**Article 15.** Deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters shall strengthen technical management and regularly review, evaluate and verify the algorithmic mechanism that generates the synthesis class. Deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters who provide models, templates and other tools with the following functions shall conduct security assessment by themselves or entrusting specialized agencies in accordance with the law:

(I) Generating or editing face, voice or other biometric information; or

(II) Generating or editing special objects, scenes or other non-biometric information that may involve national security, national image, national interests or public interests.

**Article 16.** For the information contents generated or edited by using its services, a deep synthesis service provider shall take technical measures, add marks that do not affect users' use, and keep logs in accordance with the laws, administrative regulations and the relevant provisions of the State.

**Article 17.** Where a deep synthesis service provider provides the following deep synthesis services, which may cause confusion or misidentification of the public, it shall make prominent marks at reasonable positions or areas of the information contents generated or edited to inform the public of the deep synthesis situation: (I) Generation or editing of texts by simulating a natural person through intelligent dialogue, intelligent writing, etc.;

(II) Editing services that generate speech such as synthesis of voice, voice imitation, etc., or noticeably change personal identity features;

(III) Editing services that generate image or video images or videos or noticeably change personal identity features such as face generation, face swap, face control, posture control, etc.;

(IV) Immersive simulation scene generation or editing services; and

(V) Other services that have the function of generating or noticeably changing information content. Deep synthesis service providers providing deep synthesis services other than those specified in the preceding paragraph shall provide a prominent mark function and remind deep synthesis service users to make prominent marks.

**Article 18.** No organization or individual may delete, alter or conceal the deep synthesis marks as prescribed in Articles 16 and 17 hereof by technical means.

## Chapter IV Supervision, Inspection and Legal Liability

**Article 19.** The deep synthesis service providers with attribute of public opinions or capable of mobilizing the public shall go through the formalities for record-filing, change or cancelation of record-filing in accordance with the Administrative Provisions on the Recommendation of Algorithms for Internet-based Information Services. Technical supporters of deep synthesis services shall go through the formalities for record-filing, change or cancellation of record-filing with reference to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. The deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters that have completed the record-filing shall indicate their filing numbers in a prominent position of their websites, applications, etc. through which they provide services to the public and provide links to the publicized information.

**Article 20.** Where deep synthesis service providers develop and launch new products, new applications and new functions with attribute of public opinions or capable of mobilizing the public, they shall carry out security assessment in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State.

**Article 21.** Cyberspace administration authorities, competent telecommunications authorities and public security authorities shall supervise and inspect deep synthesis services ex officio. Deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters shall cooperate in accordance with the law and provide necessary technical, data and other support and assistance. Where cyberspace administration and competent authorities find that deep synthesis services have relatively high information security risks, they may, according to their duties and in accordance with the law, require the deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters to take measures such as suspending information update, user account registration or other related services. Deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters shall take measures to make rectification and eliminate hidden dangers as required.

**Article 22.** Deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters that violate these Provisions shall be penalized in accordance with relevant laws and administrative regulations; if serious consequences are caused, heavier penalties shall be imposed in accordance with the law. Where a violation of public security administration is constituted, the public security organ shall impose public security administration penalties in accordance with the law; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be investigated in accordance with the law.

## Chapter V Supplemental Provisions

**Article 23.** For the purpose of these Provisions, the following terms shall have the following meanings: Deep synthesis technology refers to the technology for producing text, images, audio, video, virtual scenes and other network information by using deep learning, virtual reality and other generation and synthesis algorithms, including but not limited to:

(I) Technologies for chapter generation, text style conversion, questions, answers and dialogues and other technologies for generating or editing text contents;

(II) Technologies for generating or editing audio contents, such as text-to-speech, speech-to-speech conversion and audio attribute editing;

(III) Technologies for generating or editing non-audio contents, such as music generation and scene sound editing;

(IV) Technologies for generating or editing biological features in images and video contents, such as face generation, face swap, character attribute editing, face control and posture control;

(V) Technologies for generating or editing non-biological features in images and video contents, such as image generation, image enhancement and image restoration; and

(VI) Technologies for generating or editing digital characters and virtual scenes, such as three-dimensional reconstruction and digital simulation. Deep synthesis service providers refer to organizations and individuals that provide deep synthesis services. Technical supporters of deep synthesis services refer to organizations and individuals that provide technical support for deep synthesis services. Deep synthesis service users refer to organizations and individuals that use deep synthesis services to produce, reproduce, release, or disseminate information. Training data refer to labels or benchmark data sets that are used for training machine learning models. Immersive virtual scenes refer to virtual scenes that are generated or edited with deep synthesis technology, experienced or interactive by participants, and have a high sense of reality.

**Article 24.** Deep synthesis service providers and technical supporters that engage in online publishing services, online cultural activities and online audiovisual program services shall also comply with the provisions of the competent authorities of press and publishing, culture and tourism, and of radio and television. 2023 1 10 Article 25 These Provisions shall come into force as of January 10, 2023. PAGE/NUMPAGES PAGE/NUMPAGES