Why AI drama characters keep blushing: prompt clichés and limited model understanding
A commentary argues that characters in Chinese AI-generated short dramas, including "Qin Shi Huang: I Have a Huaxia All-Star Roster" and "Falling for the Borage Boy," blush constantly in ways that leave viewers unable to tell whether they are shy or angry. The author cites an advisor's explanation that scripts and storyboards are now largely generated automatically, making "face turns red" a high-frequency prompt, while models do not grasp the shyness, irritation or embarrassment behind it and simply render a red face. The piece adds that AI characters also gasp, purse their lips and cry with centered tears, and that some creators accept such flaws rather than re-roll, since each retry costs credits.
The author argues that these seemingly harmless expressions are the key reason AI characters still fail to read as human, even as AI short dramas grow more numerous and visually ambitious.
（本文作者为 潜水鱼X，钛媒体经授权发布）
文 | 潜水鱼X，作者 | 何润萱
最近小鱼看各种AI剧有个很大的疑惑，无论男频女频主角配角，上来总是一通可疑的脸红，不知道是害羞还是生气，堪比河豚鼓嘴之后第二个AI经典的伪人动作。说得刻薄点，AI剧里的人顶着一脸红晕说话，也很像黄皮子在讨封，“你看我像人吗？”
至于为什么提到黄皮子，想必各位也不陌生了，最近的热门中剧《余红旧事》里就有这么一只。其中男主角刘阳开场就霍霍了几条人命，但因为他的反杀来得太突然，剧情本身很有点东北聊斋的味道，观众们因此产生了一波大讨论：真刘阳早就死在林场里了，后来的刘阳是被黄皮子附身的傀儡。
你说这是观众们的过度解读吧也不对，毕竟刘阳自己都说了：我那天压根儿没从火里逃出来，我好像已经死了。保不齐那天有哪个走投无路的野兽，被火烧得没处逃，钻到我这副腔子里了。