China Is Not Happy About Fan-made A.I. Videos of Sun Wukong and Lin Daiyu

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNow to China, where the authorities have turned their attention to a romance between two characters from two different novels.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFan-made A. I. videos pairing the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, with Lin Daiyu from Dream of the Red Chamber have drawn official displeasure, The New York Times reports, and short-video platforms have removed thousands of them.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThousands is the number you get when a pairing actually works. Nobody deletes a flop.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPeople's Daily warned against what it called malicious alterations that ridicule heroes.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThree platforms cleared more than seventy-four hundred violating videos in September alone, according to a Shanghai-based outlet.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNetizens joked that she picked the wrong stone, since the Monkey King was born from one and her book is also called The Story of the Stone.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA Beijing lawyer says A. I. creators are generally limited to small quotations for commentary.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt is a rare state that regulates a couple's chemistry by the clause.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the filing reads: two characters, one video, no shared book.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe couple were never in the same novel, and the state is the first party to put them in the same file.