China’s market regulator has penalised several companies for posing as DeepSeek and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to defraud users, in its latest crackdown on unfair competition and intellectual property (IP) theft in the artificial intelligence sector.
The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China’s market watchdog, fined Shanghai Shangyun Internet Technology 62,692.70 yuan (US$9,034) for operating a fraudulent ChatGPT service on Tencent Holdings’ super app WeChat.
The service posed as the…
China fines firms for fake ChatGPT and DeepSeek services in IP theft crackdown
