China's CAC notices require launched generative-AI applications or functions to display the filed/registered service or model they use, including the model name and filing or launch number.

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Claim LD12-HQ-C13 (v1.0)

China's CAC notices require launched generative-AI applications or functions to display the filed/registered service or model they use, including the model name and filing or launch number.

Research opportunities this claim motivates

What this claim leaves open for research. Each is a hypothesis about a gap, not a finding.

Does concentration at the model layer make apps fail alike? A test on China's registerChina's regulator requires launched generative-AI applications to display the filed service or model they use, with its name and filing number, which supplies the dependence map.
China's AI filing register: how often are filings sent back, and whose models do apps use?Launched applications must display the filed service or model they use, with its name and filing number, which makes model dependence observable; the claim does not license any measured concentration, which is what this study would supply.

Provenance and status

Claim type: Fact and Interpretation
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with qualifiers: interpretation label
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: Measured concentration, competition or compliance rates
Limitations: Actual compliance with display rule not measured
Source (as cited): CAC filing notices
Source type: Government document (recorded as “Government primary”)
Institutional position: Chinese regulator
Maturity of the evidence: Emerging evidence
Recorded date: 25 September 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

Sources this version cites

CAC generative-AI filing notices (Government document)
No checked link to the original yet.

Version

This is the current version, v1.0. Earlier versions stay available, and their records never change.

Versions: v1.0 · current

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All 25 canonical Claim fields, verbatim, with the coded values derived from them. The plain-language labels above are read from these.

Claim type (coded): FACT + INTERPRETATION (as printed: “FACT / INTERPRETATION”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (INTERPRETATION_LABEL) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH INTERPRETATION LABEL”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY
Source type (coded): GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY
Maturity (coded): EMERGING

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD12-HQ-C13	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	China's CAC notices require launched generative-AI applications or functions to display the filed/registered service or model they use, including the model name and filing or launch number.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT / INTERPRETATION	base_types: FACT, INTERPRETATION
4	RESEARCH STRAND	F/D — Market shaping / steering	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	CAC filing notices	source_ids: SRC-LD12-CAC-GENAI-FILING-NOTICES
7	SOURCE TYPE	Government primary	classes: GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Chinese regulator	—
9	SCOPE	Mainland China; operational filing/registration regime	—
10	DESIGN	Legal-administrative documentary	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Notice text	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Various	—
13	COMPARATOR	No comparator	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Downstream applications are linked publicly to upstream filed/registered models.	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Traceable two-tier regulatory architecture	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Measured concentration, competition or compliance rates	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Actual compliance with display rule not measured	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Latest 2026 CAC notice repeats the requirement	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	China / Chinese	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Downstream apps depend on eligible upstream model/service records; market effect unmeasured	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D1, D6.2, D4b, L-B	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Market-share or compliance evidence	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH INTERPRETATION LABEL	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: INTERPRETATION_LABEL
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D1 (DOMAIN); D6.2 (SUB_AREA); D4b (SUB_AREA); L-B (LENS)

The sources as recorded, with their record IDs and coded source types:

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“CAC filing notices” → CAC generative-AI filing notices (SRC-LD12-CAC-GENAI-FILING-NOTICES--v1.0) — CAC generative-AI filing notices; class GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)

Cited by Living Debate versions

Regulation-in-Practice: Rights, Compliance & Developmental Steering (v0.1) LD-12

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SocioLens project. (2026, September 25). China's CAC notices require launched generative-AI applications or functions to display the filed/registered service or model they use, including the model name and filing or launch number [Claim LD12-HQ-C13, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld12-hq-c13/v1.0/

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