President Xi of China is hoping that the successor to President Tsai of Taiwan will want closer ties to BeijingThe bizarre videos began to appear on Tuesday, more than 100 of them posted online in the space of a few hours. They were crude in quality, with robotic artificial voices and stiff AI-generated presenters, one them resembling Father Christmas. The platforms on which they appeared, including YouTube, deleted them, but new versions quickly popped up in their place. They were dedicated to the same end: maligning and libelling, in the crudest terms, President Tsai of Taiwan. There is no evidence at all that the claims are true, but they represent the latest

Source: The Times January 13, 2024 05:02 UTC