Yiren’s image licensed for upcoming AI Live-Action Short Drama "The Left Ear" (左耳)
Chinese media reported in early August that Yiren's digital likeness will be used for the lead role in an upcoming AI Short Drama ("The Left Ear" / 左耳).
I really hope this doesn't hurt her chances of getting traditional live-action roles in the future.
Source (Chinese)
Edit:
The reason is likely that previous AI dramas failed. So now they try it with copied faces.
>In early June, the phrase ‘physiological aversion to AI faces’ trended on social media, with the topic garnering over 52 million views. Public aversion to AI faces centred on two extremes: some felt that AI faces were all cut from the same mould and particularly jarring; others feared that AI faces were too lifelike, triggering the ‘uncanny valley effect’, where even what one sees with one’s own eyes may not be to be trusted.
In the first quarter of 2026, the industry released approximately 128,000 micro-short dramas, of which around 122,000 were AI-generated, accounting for over 95 per cent. However, taking the 2026 Spring Festival season as an example, whilst the number of live-action dramas released was only one-fiftieth that of AI-generated dramas, their total viewership reached 25 times that of AI-generated dramas.