Recently, sensational news spread across the Internet that the Chinese company Kaiwa Technology had allegedly developed a humanoid capable of carrying a child. The story was accompanied by AI-generated images and quickly gained tens of thousands of reactions on social networks. As it turned out, this was simply a fake story that spread even to major publications.
Fact-checkers from Snopes began to verify the information. They found that the name of the inventor Zhang Qifeng, which many media outlets referred to, is not listed among the graduates or employees of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The NTU press service also officially confirmed that no research on the creation of a “robot womb” was ever conducted at the university.
At the same time, publications about the sensational project appeared in such major publications as the British tabloid Daily Mail, the Korean Chosun and the Indian CNBC TV18. The materials were soon removed from websites, including the article in the Hong Kong newspaper The Standard. An investigation showed that the photographs used in the "news" also showed signs of being generated by a neural network and were distributed without citing sources.
Thus, rumors about the development of a robot in China that can replace surrogacy were not confirmed. Experts concluded that this story is completely fictitious and is an example of another viral fake content.
