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The Real Fake News

(Xinhua)

Meet Xin Xiaomeng, Xinhua’s newest news anchor.

Xinhua, has just debuted their latest AI news reporter to complement the previous two they introduced in November.

“When Xinhua debuted their first AI anchors in November, the news agency claimed that each anchor could ‘work 24 hours a day on its official website and various social media platforms, reducing news production costs and improving efficiency.’”

Since the flood of articles about the thispersondoesnotexist.com AI face generating machine, it is amazing to see how much AI is improving. There is still that bit of uncanny valley to these, especially in the eyes, but it is pretty hard to tell the difference. You can test yourself at www.whichfaceisreal.com