MANILA, Philippines—Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Chair Lala Sotto condemned the AI-generated videos and editorial content released by China Daily, saying they depicted Filipinos in a “racist and dehumanizing manner.”
“As a Filipino, I stand with every Filipino who found these offensive and unacceptable,” Sotto said in a statement on Monday.
“I fully support the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in calling out these derogatory portrayals,” she added.
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On July 10, China Daily’s Facebook account posted an AI-generated video showing a monkey clad in a worn barong Tagalog being blasted with water from a cannon. The DFA formally protested the video and editorial content released by state-run newspaper China Daily.FEATURED STORIES
