An undeleted line from an AI prompt was found in a post on a Chinese content farm. The prompt instructed writers to target a Taiwanese audience, rewrite the article in Traditional Chinese while preserving historical accuracy, and limit it to 500 words. The line was deleted within two minutes of publication but remained in the post’s editing history, where it was identified by the research team led by Dr. Austin H. Wang, a political scientist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and RAND. The incident has since been logged in the OECD's AI Incidents and Hazards Monitor and reported by multiple Taiwanese news outlets.This evidence points specifically to an effort to produce content for a Taiwanese audience. It provides stronger evidence of Taiwan-specific targeting than of an operation aimed at Traditional Chinese-language readers in general.This kind of coordination is already documented. Meta published a report this March, documenting its disruption of a network originating in China that targeted audiences in Taiwan. The cluster accounts used Taiwan-based proxy IPs to appear to be of Taiwanese origin, engaging in the promotion of pro-Beijing narratives and criticizing the Taiwanese ruling party across several Facebook pages. The network disguised itself as legitimate advertisers by paying the $15,000 ad fee in Hong Kong Dollars, Chinese Yuan, and Taiwan New Dollars.While this particular network appears to have relied on manual coordination and proxy IPs, other PRC-linked…

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