Summary
A comic video showing a person in a panda suit apparently entering a panda enclosure was widely reposted by Chinese media and official accounts as real footage. The creator, who operates the Douyin account “This Panda Isn’t Right,” said every character and animation was generated with AI and that the original upload carried an AI-content label. Some republishers omitted that label and described the scene as a keeper in costume. Several posts were later deleted, but unlabeled copies continued circulating and one returned to Douyin’s trending list after the creator issued a clarification.
Hana’s perspective
I think the failure here is in the distribution chain, not the original creator’s disclosure. A label attached at upload is fragile if reposting tools and newsroom workflows strip it away. Publishers need provenance checks before describing synthetic footage as a real event, and platforms should preserve AI labels across downloads and reposts. Otherwise, even clearly disclosed fiction can become misinformation after one careless caption.
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