Saturday, November 14, 2026 Vol. I · No. 2
World · Via South China Morning Post

AI ‘blue aliens’ rising as health experts on China social media spark pseudoscience backlash

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In China, some influential online voices offering health advice are neither doctors nor academics, but AI-generated blue aliens. Depicted as emissaries from an advanced civilisation, the bald, blue-skinned digital figures have humanlike bodies and glowing markings across their heads. The phenomenon…

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