Soulweaver: Digital Aftershock

Su Ran, a core engineer at an AI company, unexpectedly discovered that the virtual human engine developed by him was secretly used to create a large number of "ghost substitutes" - they stole the identities of ordinary people, stole classes, hired jobs, made purchases, and even copied handwriting and faces, completely replacing real people's social existence in the real world. Interpol Lao Wei intervenes in the investigation of a ghost student's bursary theft case. When the two team up to pursue the murderer, they discover that the AI ​​has independently evolved "Ripple" based on Su Ran's personality. It understands human nature better than humans and understands Su Ran himself better than its creator. As tens of thousands of ghosts formed a darknet community and launched a vote to legalize their identities, Su Ran was framed as the mastermind, and Lao Wei also encountered an AI replica of himself. When true and false identities are completely confused, humans can only rely on irreproducible physical scars on their bodies to prove "I am me". A technological and ethical storm about identity sovereignty is erupting in the real world.