Do you sometimes wish you could clone yourself to complete all your work? Companies in China are creating digital avatars using generative artificial intelligence to do just that.
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Do you sometimes wish you could just clone yourself to get all your work done? Companies in China now offer to do that. They create digital avatars of real people using generative AI. Here’s NPR’s Emily Feng.
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WANG XUE’ER: (Speaking Mandarin).
EMILY FENG: This is 28-year-old live streamer Wang Xue’er online advertising mooncakes.
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WANG: (Speaking Mandarin).
FENG: But hold on, on another e-commerce channel, she’s also simultaneously selling