When an official news program on state-run Hunan Economic Television took to the air on May 6, the tension between artificiality and authenticity was on full display. As two AI-generated anchors, Sheng Sheng and Shuang Shuang, read out the news, a message appeared in the corner of the screen: “content not [AI] generated” (不生成內容). The disclaimer in the May 6 broadcast was an about-face from the broadcast two days earlier, when the AI-generated an…