Poen Actors Clones

Adult film actors are using AI to make digital clones of themselves, to keep an income stream going after they leave the profession. AI “companion” companies use performers’ image and voice, with permission, and create likenesses from which users can pay to generate X-rated scenes. “She’s never going to age,” one retired actress told WIRED of her digital clone. Every media technology gets co-opted for sexual imagery — from cave paintings to daguerreotype to the internet — but it’s not just the adult industry creating doppelgangers: Matthew McConaughey copyrighted his AI-generated image, while Michael Caine and Liza Minnelli allowed an audio company to clone their voices. Other actors have spoken out against AI replication of their image.