According to a report by the Securities Times on May 13, the "AI digital clone" of Gu Jia, chief media officer of China Merchants Securities Media and co-leader of the TMT group, officially met with the public on May 12. This AI digital avatar has Gu Jia's voice and appearance, as well as multi-modal interaction and generation capabilities derived from large models. Press conferences, research report interpretations, analyst conference calls, etc. wherever customers need. Starting next week, Gu Jia will share the weekly media and Internet industry research report through her digital avatar. I learned from technical people in the industry that theoretically all the information of Gu Jia's AI digital human comes from Gu Jia's own research reports, and can only output information integrated from related research reports. "The only change is that the production form is more efficient." As a strictly regulated industry, securities firms are also actively working to formulate corresponding use procedures and specifications to ensure that digital people can represent analysts themselves and provide professional services to the market legally and compliantly.

According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on June 15, Live95.5, a subsidiary of Alpha Media in the United States, became one of the first radio stations to try out AI announcers. Live95.5 announced on June 14 local time that its noon Show host Ashley Elzinga will play a clone of her voice — aka "AIAshley" — to listeners daily from 10am to 3pm, using AI software company Futuri Media's generative AI product "RadioGPT," which can be based on ChatGPT generates news transcripts and reads them using synthesized speech. Alpha Media also assured that host Elzinga will not lose her job and her salary will not change.

According to news from IT House on June 1, two weeks ago, Xiaoice announced the launch of the "Human Clone Project" in the Chinese and Japanese markets. Create AI clones based on your personality, skills, voice, and appearance. According to the latest official news, at present, the first batch of Internet celebrity clones have been launched ahead of schedule, including the previously controversial "Hanzo Forest". In this regard, Xiaoice believes that under the premise of strictly abiding by the red line of the law, everyone can have the opportunity to start a second life with AI cloning. Xiaobing said that at present, the total number of Internet celebrity fans who have signed up for clones in the background has exceeded 500 million. However, for safety reasons, the first batch of clones is still limited to 300 people. After testing and verification, it is expected to be gradually released to a larger scale before the end of the year. Xiaoice plans to unlock new clones every Thursday. In addition, in order to avoid hidden dangers caused by improper use of clones, Xiaoice Company does not open technical interfaces, but restricts clones to communicate with users only in specific X Eva Apps. The technologies used at the bottom of X Eva App include Xiaoice XLLM language model, sound and neural network rendering technology, etc., so that clones have both personality and the ability to complete work.