Beijing clarifies the criminal law positioning of AI training systems for the first time: the case of deleting model data is classified as the crime of damaging computer information systems.

According to Beating Monitoring, the Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate released the “Beijing Procuratorate Intellectual Property Rights White Paper (2025)”, which disclosed that in 2025, the city’s procuratorial organs handled 113 intellectual property cases related to artificial intelligence and data element industries.

The white paper highlights two first-of-its-kind cases in the AI field.

Dongcheng District Procuratorate handled Beijing’s first case of illegal deletion of AI model training data. An employee deliberately deleted a large amount of data used to train AI models, causing structural damage to the training system and significant economic losses. The procuratorial authorities prosecuted the case under the crime of disrupting computer information systems. The white paper states that this case helped recognize AI model training systems as “computer information systems” in the criminal law sense. This crime previously mainly targeted traditional information systems such as servers and databases being invaded or damaged; the criminal positioning of AI training data and training systems was not clear before.

Tongzhou District Procuratorate handled Beijing’s first case of copyright infringement using AI-generated models. Four defendants copied others’ works using AI technology without authorization for profit and were all convicted of copyright infringement.

In 2025, the Beijing procuratorial organs handled a total of 1,195 intellectual property cases, an increase of 10.34% year-on-year.