Category: Douyin

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…

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Chinese Media Unveiled Illegal Manipulation of Tiktok’s Hot List

December 11, 2021
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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…

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Chinese Version of TikTok Limits App Use for Children Under 14

September 20, 2021
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The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin, on Sept. 18 announced that it had placed limits on youth usage of the app of up to 40 minutes a day. Douyin said in a statement that all authorized users under 14 years old will now access the app in a “youth mode.” The move is part of…

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