Not an AI fake: Social media in China delighted to discover world-famous Jiafei meme is real


By Fran Lu
Model is woman who took iconic selfie at home three years ago. Photo stolen by online retail accounts became global TikTok meme. — SCMP

People online in China who assumed the hugely popular 2021 TikTok meme, Jiafei, was an artificial intelligence fake have been astonished to learn the iconic profile belongs to a real person.

On Oct 16, a model from Beijing, surnamed Dai, said the meme was one of three selfies she took three years ago on the balcony of her home in Sanya in southern China’s island province of Hainan.

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