o By early 2026, AI will have been used to produce 95% of the approximately 128,000 short dramas made in China.
o AI is no longer just creating backgrounds or special effects; it's also digitizing human faces, voices, and acting.
* Some actors are licensing their faces and voices for use by AI.
o Live commerce is also being replaced by AI presenters (at a cost of about 10% of human presenters).
o The spread of AI video technology is not just about reducing film production costs; it's causing structural changes in the large-scale content labor market.
* Approximately 690,000 people are employed in the Chinese short drama industry, and approximately 15 million in the live streaming industry.
We are now entering an era where AI is seriously replacing not only 'white-collar' jobs but also content labor.
Ironically, the more AI actors there are, the greater the scarcity of human stars may become.
However, the position of actors who are not stars may become very narrow.
▶ Source: https://www.ft.com/content/7117ff02-d495-4936-8f05-fa73a7a5c669?syn-25a6b1a6=1
