{
  "id": 16873775,
  "title": "How Lao Gan Ma, China’s iconic chilli brand, got caught in an AI storm",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/how-lao-gan-ma-chinas-iconic-chilli-brand-got-caught-in-an-ai-storm-16873775",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-28T08:00:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Tech",
    "slug": "scmp-tech",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3372414/how-lao-gan-ma-chinas-iconic-chilli-brand-got-caught-ai-storm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For three decades, Lao Gan Ma’s glass jars, bearing the stern portrait of founder Tao Huabi, have been a fixture on Chinese dinner tables and a symbol of traditional food manufacturing. This week, however, the iconic chilli sauce has become an unlikely focus of public anxiety over artificial intelligence. Online rumours that the Guizhou-based company had replaced hundreds of factory workers with…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}