Racist AI Fantasies Are Spreading on China’s Internet

Anti-Black videos speak to popular prejudices.

The head of a humanoid robot is seen from below. The head is constructed as from dark metals and plastic, with a visor that looks like ski goggles rather than eyes. A logo where an ear would be says "Z1 Robot." October 15, 2025, 11:46 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

A tragic two-minute video spread over Chinese social media early this summer. A Chinese woman goes to university and falls in love with a Black student. She’s impressed when he tells her that he owns a mine and doesn’t break up with him when she finds out he bought her knockoff designer clothes. Eventually, she decides to move to his unspecified African homeland, despite her parents’ protests.

But when she gets t

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