AI dramas need actors, so Chinese platforms are turning human faces into stock assets
People in China can now license their face to AI much like a photographer licenses a stock image. AI creators can then make that likeness speak, move, and appear as different characters in short dramas or ads. Contributors have earned between $15 and $700 through platforms such as ActID and New Claw, according to Rest of World.
- ▪People in China can now license their face to AI much like a photographer licenses a stock image.
- ▪AI creators can then make that likeness speak, move, and appear as different characters in short dramas or ads.
- ▪Contributors have earned between $15 and $700 through platforms such as ActID and New Claw, according to Rest of World.
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