A British company’s AI technology has been hijacked to create a pro-Chinese news channel featuring a pair of computer-generated presenters.
Wolf News had been building a profile on social media but was exposed this month as being linked to a political spam operation using tools developed by a London-based AI specialist. Its videos featured a highly realistic pair of “news anchors”, Jason and Anna, who were subsequently unmasked as being computer generated.
In one clip the US government was accused of a failure to tackle gun violence while a second stressed the importance of Sino-American co-operation to aid the recovery of the global economy. Both featured branding from the seemingly fictitious Wolf News, with a logo of a wolf silhouette and the tagline “focus on
