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Tech-crazed Chinese are selling — and stealing — human faces. Are we next?

theblaze.com · 7d · first reportShare

Some people turn to deliveries, others choose Uber; in China, regular people can sell their faces. Both face-selling and face-stealing are on the rise in China, with significant controversies coming out of some high-profile cases. 'Coffee break? Between meetings? Turn those extra minutes into edge-of-your-seat moments.' On Chinese websites like New Claw , regular people can upload their photos to license their likeness for AI and subsequent use in films, TV shows, or video games. The platforms feature catalogs of user images, from self-taken photos or studios. Producers or filmmakers can then browse faces by age, gender, and descriptive categories like "supermodel." On these websites, Rest of World reported , users can earn anywhere between $15 and $700 for their likeness to be used in AI content. Users do have the choice about where their faces can appear and what kind of content they are used in. One website called ID.actor focuses on legal protections for one's likeness as its main