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Proof: As AI floods China’s screens with microdramas, viewers are getting picky

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ba9c27b2a0ce3a0dc66293584169829ce1eebc1baa13a7e5783854467e86369b

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969787, mined 2026-10-04 02:17 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 02:33 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 02:12 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-ba9c27b2a0ce.json prints ba9c27b2a0ce3a0dc66293584169829ce1eebc1baa13a7e5783854467e86369b. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-ba9c27b2a0ce.json and headline-ba9c27b2a0ce.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-ba9c27b2a0ce.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.