{"id":1004032,"date":"2026-04-21T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004032"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:52:34","slug":"outrage-in-china-after-streaming-site-debuts-ai-actor-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/21\/outrage-in-china-after-streaming-site-debuts-ai-actor-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage in China after streaming site debuts AI actor &#8216;database&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s equivalent of Netflix, iQIYI, faced backlash on Monday over a new initiative that facilitates the use of actors&#8217; likenesses in artificially generated dramas and films. <\/p>\n<p>More than 100 celebrities have joined a platform to connect with makers of AI-generated content interested in using their image, a senior executive told a conference in Beijing. <\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s entertainment industry has rapidly embraced the use of artificial intelligence, with AI-generated films and shows a common feature on video platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s equivalent of Netflix, iQIYI, faced backlash on Monday over a new initiative that facilitates the use of actors&#8217; likenesses in artificially generated dramas and films. More than 100 celebrities have joined a platform to connect with makers of AI-generated content interested in using their image, a senior executive told a conference in Beijing. China&#8217;s entertainment industry has rapidly embraced the use of artificial intelligence, with AI-generated films and shows a common feature on video platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}