China grandma falls in love with ‘bossy president’, writes him love letters, buys from his shop

An 84-year-old woman fell in love with an artificial-intelligence (AI) generated human, wrote ‘him’ love letters and spent 10 hours a day watching virtual human videos. Her story reflects the needs elderly people have for love and care. Zhang Yulan, from central China’s Hubei province, was discovered by her family to have been obsessed with a ‘bossy president’ generated by AI. The ‘bossy president’, or ba zong in Chinese, is a term used to describe a popular kind of male character in romantic...