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Chinaโ€™s New AI Ban Will Push Vulnerable Users Into the Dark โ€” Hereโ€™s Why Itโ€™s Destined to Fail

China’s new regulation targeting AI emotional companionship bans user-created bots on major platforms. But the law is fundamentally unenforceable: language models can’t separate emotional from tool interactions. Vulnerable users will be pushed to open-source or foreign alternatives with weaker safety measures. The ban doesn’t eliminate emotional AI โ€” it drives it underground, making the problem worse.