MICRO DRAMAS MINDS : A.I. FODDER PRECIS

A.I. has also become ubiquitous in micro dramas, the wildly popular short-form soapy shows that are made for mobile viewing.

In the first eight months of the year, more than 90% of the 430,000 micro dramas released in China were generated by A.I. the government said in late September.

These dramas can be churned out cheaply in minutes with no cameras, production crews or human performers. But they have come under fire for their low quality and for taking the jobs of humans.

An article in August in  Beijing Youth Daily, the official publication of the Communist Youth League, complained that production companies were churning out A.I. - created micro dramas with boring, interchangeable characters.

Some influential voices have gone as far as to say they will boycott micro dramas generated entirely by A.I.

Hu Xijin, the former editor of the state-run Global Times, told his 25 million followers on the social media platform Weibo recently that he would not watch such dramas to avoid '' filling up our recreational time with cheap A.I. fodder like pig feed.'' 

!WOW! thanks Yan Zhuang and Siyi Zhao.