{
  "id": 14284,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/china-face-licensing-ai-microdramas-biometric-marketplace",
  "title": "The AI that took their jobs is now renting their faces, for $15",
  "summary": "In China, the AI boom that put actors and models out of work has found a new use for them. It is renting their faces. A growing set of platforms now pays people $15 to $700 to license their likeness for AI-generated content, Rest of World reported. Producers browse catalogues of faces by gender, age […] This story continues at The Next Web",
  "authors": "Ana-Maria Stanciuc",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T23:22:02.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-29T05:10:12.205Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14284",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/china-face-licensing-ai-microdramas-biometric-marketplace",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}