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How Lao Gan Ma, China’s iconic chilli brand, got caught in an AI storm

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For three decades, Lao Gan Ma’s glass jars, bearing the stern portrait of founder Tao Huabi, have been a fixture on Chinese dinner tables and a symbol of traditional food manufacturing.

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