he news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan’s outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is as effective as limp spinach, her period in office beset by economic under performance, social problems and protests.being “Hollow Tsai” – a pun related to the Mandarin word for water spinach.This is not a conventional broadcast journalist, even if the lack of impartiality is no longer a shock.
“It does not need to be perfect,” said Tyler Williams, the director of investigations at Graphika, a disinformation research company. “If a user is just scrolling through X or, a digital news presenter, who promised to bring viewers the news “24 hours a day, 365 days a year”. Although the Chinese public isChina is at the forefront of the disinformation element of the trend.
“The Chinese are much more focused on trying to put AI into their systems – propaganda, disinformation – they moved there very quickly. They’re trying everything. It’s not particularly effective,” said Watts. Experts don’t believe the computer-made news anchors are effective dupes just yet: Tsai’s pro-sovereignty party won in Taiwan, despite the avatar’s best efforts. Macrina Wang, the deputy news verification editor at NewsGuard, said the avatar content she had seen was “quite crude” but was increasing in volume. To the trained eye these videos were obviously fake, she said, with stilted movement and a lack of shifting light or shadows on the avatar’s figure being among the giveaways.
In its report last month, Microsoft researchers said they had not encountered many examples of AI-generated content having an impact on the offline world.