TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Leaked documents analyzed by Doublethink Lab show a Chinese firm built an extensive Taiwan database while deploying AI-generated personas to impersonate citizens, to carry out cognitive infiltration and sow division in the country.
Chinese technology firm GoLaxy built a “political figures database” on Taiwan, compiling profiles of politicians, including President Lai Ching-te (賴清德), former President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), former Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌), former Control Yuan President Chen Chu (陳菊), and Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁), per Liberty Times. It also includes opposition figures like former Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-yi (侯友宜).
The database catalogs party affiliation, positions, birthplaces, residences, education, religion, social connections, and brief biographies. Documents show the creation of a “Taiwan-related knowledge graph” with data on political parties and institutions.
It lists leadership, party size, ideological positioning, and an “attitude toward China” section categorizing individuals as pro- or anti-China. This enables automated queries to identify, for example, green camp figures leading anti-China groups or blue camp figures in key institutional roles.
Doublethink Lab found the database includes 6.2 million news and social media posts from at least 10,000 Taiwan-related sources, as well as about 5,000 targeted social media accounts. It also contains up to 23 million closed-source household registration records, alongside information on 75 political parties, 1,478 companies, over 13,000 religious groups, and nearly 24,000 civic organizations, forming a “panoramic map” of Taiwan’s civil society.
The group said GoLaxy frames its Taiwan operations around “division” and “shaping,” sorting political figures into four camps, including “hardline,” “friendly,” “swing,” and “objective,” and their opposing counterparts, with at least 1,000 individuals per category. It also uses “identity shaping and cultivation technologies” to simulate Taiwanese audience preferences, cognition, and linguistic styles, generating highly realistic AI personas and scripts in Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese, and English.
