#also please don't buy one it'd most likely be counterfeit

[foxghost]

*shows up late with a tea cup* what's the ai-designed mascot nonsense about? :o

Anon it is STILL technically CNY so you're not late at all!

On Dec 6, the official mascot for 2024 CNY was released, along with a segment on CCTV talking about all its elements being taken from culturally significant symbols blah blah blah. Here's a link to the Global Times aka the Central Propaganda Mouthpiece, on how it is a masterpiece inspired by ancient chinese elements.

There are immediate questions. It looks like AI art, there's a claw # mismatch, it has that glowy soulless AI quality. Also, it looks almost exactly like the mascot from the China Construction Bank dragon year gold bank note.

see here -- spring fest mascot up top, bank note bottom

This bank note was ADVERTISED as "the very first mascot created by AI on this planet".

Spring Night (official weibo acct of THE SPRING FESTIVAL NIGHT) responded to the internet's accusations in the most halfassed way possible by releasing CLEARLY FAKE screenshots, and even a video scrolling all their identical looking psd files:

Look, we pencil sketched an outline and cloned it a hundred times in blue!

The bank has released no statement. Their promo videos are gone, but you can still find it on the B site scroll to 2:20 and you'll hear about how their Chenchen was designed by AI.

How did Spring Night deal with criticism after that? it seems the way they're dealing with this is "not at all" and wait for it go away ... we still saw it on spring night because it became part of the show. (If you keep watching for a few minutes, you'll see a 3D version of it behind the announcers' heads.)

For a picture of the CCB bank note, you can look for 2024中国建设银行龙年金钞, or even find it on ebay by searching "2024 CCB dragon gold banknote".

source for images: singtao.ca

#CNY 2024 #it would be a scandal if they admit it? #I stopped following it after last weekend but if anything new comes up let me know #lunar new year #also please don't buy one it'd most likely be counterfeit #it may seem like such a nothingburger #but blatant lies is how authoritarianism works