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“ChinAI #320: Acting Crazy — AI’s most important use case for Chinese youth” by Jeffrey Ding

“ChinAI #320: Acting Crazy — AI’s most important use case for Chinese youth” by Jeffrey Ding

Update: 2025-07-14
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These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.



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First published:

July 14th, 2025



Source:

https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-320-acting-crazy-ais-most


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Images from the article:

Chinese infographic showing five methods to deal with social pressure, with heat index scores between 14-100. The graphic is styled with blue headers and includes keywords and explanations for each method.
Data source: Count the relevant posts in Xiaohongshu that mention “acting crazy” correspondence, segment the text and count the phrase frequencies. The type of post that is the most frequent is normalized as 100 in the above “acting crazy” index. Data collected on June 18, 2025.

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“ChinAI #320: Acting Crazy — AI’s most important use case for Chinese youth” by Jeffrey Ding

“ChinAI #320: Acting Crazy — AI’s most important use case for Chinese youth” by Jeffrey Ding