China to crack down on stock market fake news as AI spurs misinformation, says state media

Regulators will "hit early, hit hard, and hit at the heart" of the issue, the Securities Times said.
Artificial intelligence has become a new tool for creating and spreading misleading information to con investors or manipulate stocks, luring investors with the prospect of getting rich quickly, the
The rise of Chinese AI company DeepSeek has driven retail investors and fund managers to embrace AI to help them evaluate companies and invest, but their adoption of the technology also raises risks they will become vulnerable to fake news created by artificial intelligence.
The Securities Times said the
The reports by the Securities Times and the
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