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world Scmp World 2026-03-27

China Grandma Falls in Love with AI 'Bossy President'

An 84-year-old Chinese woman from Hubei province falls in love with an AI-generated human and writes him love letters, spending 10 hours a day watching virtual human videos.


An 84-year-old woman fell in love with an artificial-intelligence (AI) generated human, wrote ‘him’ love letters and spent 10 hours a day watching virtual human videos. Her story reflects the needs elderly people have for love and care. Zhang Yulan, from central China’s Hubei province, was discovered by her family to have been obsessed with a ‘bossy president’ generated by AI. The ‘bossy president’, or ba zong in Chinese, is a term used to describe a popular kind of male character in romantic.....

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