🇨🇳 China's Market for Renting Human Faces to AI

In China, people rent out their faces for AI ads, games, and microdramas, earning between $15 and $700. Producers select faces by age, gender, and type, from "ordinary neighbor" to "supermodel."

This trend follows a surge in AI content: over 95% of 128,000 Chinese microdramas in the first three months of the year used AI. Real faces help characters avoid looking identical.

Lawyers warn that sharing biometric data risks losing control over how one’s appearance is used later.

📊@tech