China’s AI Microdrama Boom: More Output, Copycat Content, Less Money

（SINGAPORE 10.6.2026）China’s microdrama (短剧）industry is trapped in a “production dilemma”: artificial intelligence (AI) is making short dramas cheaper and faster to produce. Yet the easier they become to make, the harder it is for the industry to make money. That is the central paradox now facing China’s AI microdrama industry. Hong Kong’s South China Morning […]