China parents buy AI clips of regretful single women to urge childless kids to marry
Fake videos show frustrated, unmarried, childless middle-aged women crying and venting in hospital hallways about their life choices
Online artificial intelligence-generated videos of distraught middle-aged single women regretting not getting married and having children are being used to push young people to tie the knot.
Several videos made using artificial intelligence (AI) depicting crying single women at hospitals have circulated on a short video platform.
In one, a 58-year-old woman regrets not getting married and having children when she was young and complains that she has to go to hospitals alone.
In another, a 56-year-old woman says: “I regret it. My parents told me to get married and have kids. I did not listen to them, thinking it was too much trouble. Look at me now.”
The poster also captioned the video that the woman is from northwestern China’s Gansu province.