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📺 YouTube spells out which AI videos can't earn money

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China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, and ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent switched off their custom AI companion features instead of rebuilding them to comply.

The rules bar AI from inducing emotional dependence, require regular reminders that the bot is not real, limit long-term emotional memory, and ban virtual partners for minors. Work and study tools stay exempt.

Regulators link the crackdown to record low birth rates, though the users posting goodbye messages on Weibo suggest the loneliness that drove them to AI partners will outlast the apps.

Christopher Nolan compared AI to a Trojan horse in an interview with YouTube creator Hugo Travers, laughing that everybody already knows the Greeks are inside. He called it a transparent horse made of glass.

Nolan praised young people for rejecting AI video and coining the term "AI slop." He runs the Directors Guild of America, which won generative AI protections in its most recent contract.

He picked a good week to say it. "The Odyssey" opened to $124.5 million domestically and $264 million worldwide, his biggest global launch ever, shot entirely on IMAX film cameras.

YouTube updated its inauthentic content guidelines on July 16, splitting them into three categories of videos that make a channel ineligible to earn money through the YouTube Partner Program.

The buckets cover generic or template built videos, off-putting content that chases views through distress or fake visuals, and AI personas dispensing advice on health, finance, legal, or political topics.

Halprin stresses these are examples, not new rules. YouTube banned this material a year ago and the slop kept coming, which suggests enforcement, not wording, decides what actually gets paid.

France's gambling regulator ordered internet providers to block Polymarket on July 16, treating the prediction market as an illegal gambling site rather than a financial trading platform. Polymarket denies breaking gambling laws.

The regulator blocked payments from France back in November 2024, but users routed around it. Polymarket still drew 578,751 visits from 205,057 French users in June, so the ANJ escalated.

The ANJ also pointed to a complaint from Météo-France about a tampered temperature sensor tied to weather bets, which now has Paris cybercrime investigators looking into it.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16 with 2.8 trillion parameters. Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8 three days later at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, claiming 2.4 trillion parameters.

Both companies plan to publish their model weights for anyone to download, which top US labs mostly do not. Moonshot set July 27 as its date. Alibaba just says "soon" and has released no benchmarks.

Alibaba helps fund Moonshot, so its rapid answer to Kimi K3 came at partly its own expense. Investors did not mind and pushed Alibaba shares up as much as 5.4% Monday.

A) Yes - 45%

B) No - 55% 🏆