“Hour One doesn’t ask for any particular skills. You just need to be willing to hand over the rights to your face.”
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Will Douglas Heaven,
MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for AI, on the Israeli-American
startup that uses people’s likenesses to create AI-voiced characters that then appear in marketing and educational videos for organizations around the world. “Anyone can apply to become a character,” writes Heaven. “Like a modeling agency, Hour One filters through applicants, selecting those it wants on its books.”