How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda

The 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. "Water spinach looks at water spinach. Turns out that water spinach isn't just a name," says the presenter, in an extended metaphor about Tsai being "Hollow Tsai" - a pun related to the Mandarin word for water spinach. AI-generated presenter compares Taiwan president to water spinach - video This is not a conventional broadcast journalist, even if the…