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 than 1.5 million followers.
The account traditionally covered physics, but struck viral gold in August…
