From news anchors to company employees, AI-powered virtual humans have quickly taken over human posts in China. In December 2021, China’s property giant Vanke said its employee of the year was not a human. According to The Paper, a Chinese state-owned media, the company declared an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered debt collector named “Cui Xiaopan” as…
Chinese Property Giant Said Its Employee of The Year Was Not a Human, But an AI Program
January 18, 2022
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Big Tech Should Be Responsible for Tackling Online Abuse, Advocate Says
January 18, 2022
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An advocate says that big tech should take the responsibility to curb abusive content on social media as they “make a heap of money” out of their sites. It came after the federal government proposed the anti-trolling law, which will force social media platforms to take down offending posts and provide the identity of anonymous…
China Reveals AI News Anchor, Almost Indistinguishable from a Real Human
January 13, 2022
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“Hello everyone, I am the artificial intelligence news anchor on National Business Daily. I am the virtual twin of the original host. I have been running—reporting the news—undetected for 70 days now,” the AI news anchor N Xiaohei revealed itself to its television viewers on Dec. 20, 2021, after 1700 hours of a continuous live…
Australian Govt Must Combat Foreign Interference On Social Media: Inquiry
January 5, 2022
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The Australian government has been urged to act quickly and create a body tasked with tackling foreign interference promulgated on social media ahead of the nation’s 2022 federal election. Large-scale coordinated disinformation campaigns led by the Russian government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have pervaded platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, and YouTube, many…
TikTok Traffic Ranks Highest World Wide, Raising Concerns of Addiction Problems for Children
Commentary TikTok has beat Google as the most visited site globally in 2021. The trend that short videos have become popular substitutes for books raises concern. According to Cloudflare, TikTok topped the list for the first time in February this year, and has remained ranking first since August. Zhang Yihe, a renowned Chinese author, told…
Australian Prime Minister Joins TikTok Despite Warnings Around App’s Beijing Ties
December 27, 2021
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has uploaded two Christmas videos on hugely popular, yet controversial, music app TikTok despite warnings about its connections to Beijing. “G’day, TikTok. Merry Christmas from me and Bud and all of our family here to you and all of yours,” Morrison said in his first video on the Chinese owned…
California Schools Increase Police Presence After TikTok Shooting Threats
California schools were on heightened alert Dec. 17 after school shooting threats were circulating nationwide on TikTok and other social media. It is unclear where the anonymous and vague school threat first originated from but the posts warn of shootings and bomb threats at schools around the country on Friday. Los Angeles Unified School District…
Schools Across US Tighten Security, Increase Police Presence After TikTok Shooting Threats
School officials and authorities across the United States said they were amping up security on Thursday after threats were made on TikTok and other social media suggesting that shootings would take place on Dec. 17. It is unclear where the anonymous and vague school threat first originated from but the posts warn of shootings and…
Chinese Media Unveiled Illegal Manipulation of Tiktok’s Hot List
News Analysis Two China-based employees of ByteDance, the developer of short video app TikTok, were sentenced to prison for taking bribes to prioritize certain content on the video platform. The arrests come amidst the common phenomenon of faking popularity through Chinese online media. A Beijing court sentenced Wang Moudi to 14 months in prison and Zhang…
UK Teachers Quitting Over False ‘Paedophile’ Slurs on TikTok
Some teachers in British schools have been quitting the profession after being falsely labelled as “paedophiles” on TikTok, union officials have warned. The latest craze on the Chinese-owned video sharing platform sees pupils sharing videos of teachers with inappropriate hashtags such as #paedo and offensive comments, sometimes even superimposing their faces onto pornographic images. Some…
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