AI could intensify Chinese election interference: DPP

By Chen Yun and Shelley Shan / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source Beijing has established a comprehensive election interference industry supply chain for Taiwan, using artificial intelligence (AI) to target specific groups, impersonate people with highly realistic and tailored language and social media ecosystems with deepfake videos before elections, the Democratic Progressive Party’s China Affairs Department said yesterday. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to expand its efforts to influence politics and society in Taiwan by combining economic and military threats, launching cyberattacks and spreading misinformation, the department said. This can be seen from incidents such as when Taiwanese K-Pop singer Chou Tzu-yu (周子瑜) was criticized by Chinese Internet users after sh