Vietnam has instructed cross-border social platforms to make use of synthetic intelligence (AI) fashions that may detect and take away “poisonous” content material robotically, the most recent requirement in its stringent regime for social media corporations, state media reported on Friday.
Vietnam has repeatedly requested firms like Meta’s Fb, Google’s YouTube and TikTok to coordinate with authorities to stamp out content material deemed “poisonous”, similar to offensive, false and anti-state content material.
“That is the primary time Vietnam has introduced such an order,” state-run broadcaster Vietnam Tv (VTV) reported from the knowledge ministry’s mid-year assessment occasion, which was opened to chose newspaper.
The report didn’t give particulars on when and the way cross-border platforms needed to abide by the brand new requirement.
Throughout the first half of this yr, in accordance with authorities requests, Fb eliminated 2,549 posts, the ministry stated in an announcement. YouTube eliminated 6,101 movies whereas TikTok took down 415 hyperlinks, the information ministry stated in an announcement.
The announcement got here as Southeast Asian international locations are drawing up governance and ethics pointers for AI that can impose “guardrails” on the booming know-how, Reuters reported this month.
Vietnam lately has issued a number of laws along with a cybersecurity legislation that concentrate on overseas social media platforms in a bid to battle disinformation in information and drive overseas tech corporations to ascertain consultant places of work in Vietnam and retailer knowledge within the nation.
The nation final month undertook a complete inspection on quick movies platform TikTok’s native operations and preliminary outcomes confirmed “numerous” TikTok violations, the information ministry has stated.
VTV reported the information ministry saying at Friday’s occasion that US streaming big Netflix had submitted paperwork wanted to open an area workplace in Vietnam.
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