{
  "id": 20099726,
  "title": "AI ‘blue aliens’ rising as health experts on China social media spark pseudoscience backlash",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/ai-blue-aliens-rising-as-health-experts-on-china-social-media-spark",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-15T02:00:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3374466/ai-blue-aliens-rising-health-experts-china-social-media-spark-pseudoscience-backlash"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In China, some influential online voices offering health advice are neither doctors nor academics, but AI-generated blue aliens. Depicted as emissaries from an advanced civilisation, the bald, blue-skinned digital figures have humanlike bodies and glowing markings across their heads. The phenomenon reportedly traces its origins to Wanxiang Science, a popular-science channel on Douyin with more…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}