Taipei, Tainan mayors face legal complaints

By Liu Yong-yun / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are both facing legal complaints over artificial intelligence (AI)-generated voice controversy.DPP Taipei city councilor candidate Chang Ming-yu (張銘祐) yesterday filed a criminal accusation against Chiang of commissioning the creation of a video that allegedly used AI voice cloning to impersonate President William Lai (賴清德).The video was allegedly made by former KMT New Media Department director, who was contacted last week by police from the Criminal Investigation Bureau, and the video is now the subject of an investigation by the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office. Taipei Mayor Ch