Chinese regulators talk with Alibaba, Tencent on internet security

Alibaba's office building in Beijing on March 31, 2019. /VCG

China's cyberspace regulator and public security ministry had held talks with 11 companies including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and Kuaishou on potential internet security problems, the regulator said on Thursday.

The move is aimed at strengthening security assessment of new internet technologies and applications related to deepfakes and audio social apps.

Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to create hyper-realistic but fake videos or audios where a person appears to say or do something they did not.

(With input from agencies)