{"id":59655,"date":"2023-11-06T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T00:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/06\/chinese-influencers-using-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content"},"modified":"2023-11-06T09:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T00:08:38","slug":"how-chinese-influencers-use-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59655","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earnings<\/p>\n<p>In September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y8TTeihzdCQ\">footage<\/a> of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours.<\/p>\n<p>His followers were suitably wowed \u2013 until some started to question if such a feat was humanly possible. The small print on the video stream confirmed their suspicions: \u201cFor display purposes only, not a real person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/06\/chinese-influencers-using-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earningsIn September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[967,41,50,800,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-computing","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59656,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59655\/revisions\/59656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}