How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda
18 May 2024 at 03:00
News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible
The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwanβs outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is as effective as limp spinach, her period in office beset by economic under performance, social problems and protests.
βWater spinach looks at water spinach. Turns out that water spinach isnβt just a name,β says the presenter, in an extended metaphor about Tsai being βHollow Tsaiβ β a pun related to the Mandarin word for water spinach.
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