I created an interactive digital avatar of myself, and you can talk to it

A journalist had interactive digital avatars created of herself by a video-generation startup, trained to answer questions about a specific article she wrote. The avatars were built using a combination of voice-to-text, language, text-to-voice, and video models, and required photos and a voice recording to create. The experience raises questions about how avatars might be used in journalism and corporate settings, though the journalist notes that trust in journalism may not be something that can be outsourced to AI, and that avatars feel scientifically unsettling to experience.