HONG KONG: Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept its hit ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China but the app is attracting huge interest in the country, with firms rushing to integrate the technology into their pro
ChatGPT supports Chinese language interaction and is highly capable of conversing in Chinese, which has helped drive its unofficial adoption in the country. Chinese firms also use proxy tools or existing partnerships with Microsoft, which is investing billions of dollars in its OpenAI, to access tools that allow them to embed AI technology into their products.
Shenzhen-based Proximai in December introduced a virtual character into its 3D game-like social app who used ChatGPT's underlying tech to converse. Beijing-based entertainment software company Kunlun Tech plans to incorporate ChatGPT in its web browser Opera. SleekFlow, a Tiger Global-backed startup in Hong Kong, said it was integrating AI into its customer relations messaging tools. "We have clients all over the world," Henson Tsai, SleekFlow's founder said."Among other things, ChatGPT does excellent translations, sometimes better than other solutions available on the market."Reuters' tests of ChatGPT indicate that the chatbot is not averse to questions that would be sensitive in mainland China. Asked for its thoughts on Chinese President Xi Jinping, for instance, it responded it does not have personal opinions and presented a range of views. But some of its proxy bots on WeChat have blacklisted such terms, according to other Reuters checks, complying with China's heavy censorship of its cyberspace. When asked the same question about Xi on one ChatGPT proxy bot, it responded by saying that the conversation violated rules. To comply with Chinese rules, Proximai's co-founder Will Duan said his platform would filter information presented to users during their interaction with ChatGPT. Chinese regulators, which last year introduced rules to strengthen governance of"deepfake" technology, have not commented on ChatGPT, however, state media this weekThe Cyberspace Administration of China, the internet regulator, did not respond to Reuters' request for comment. "With the regulations released last year, the Chinese government is saying: We already see this technology coming and we want to be ahead of the curve," said Rogier Creemers, an assistant professor at Leiden University.
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