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200,000 Chinese Actresses Cry Over Lost Jobs! AI Makes 100 Characters a Minute—How to Survive? 91,083 views Oct 23, 2026 #chinaobserver
Veteran actors including Shu Chen and Yu Qingbin have drawn attention for filming during the day and delivering food at night in Hengdian, a film and television production hub in Zhejiang. 183 Comments :
@amadeusamwater 2 days ago Using AI to duplicate the faces and voices of living people without their permission should be illegal everywhere
@AfterTheRage 1 day ago This is what happens when there are no (enforceable) copyright laws.
@SamhuntaKins 2 days ago Serious question - who are all these people still ordering food? Transcript : Chapter 1: The crisis in Hengdian
0:011 secondI play a prince in the morning and deliver food at night. I may look impressive now, but tonight I still have
0:099 secondsto deliver food. Veteran actors including Shu Chen and Yuing Bing have drawn attention for filming during the day and delivering food at night in
0:1717 secondsHungen, the film and TV production hub in Jang. A young woman who came to Hien with dreams of acting also faced a harsh reality.
0:2828 secondsI quit my job to become an actress here. Then the industry slump and AI arrived.
0:3333 secondsShort dramas dried up and so did my prospects. I tried running a small stall to get by. Then the weather turned cold and my stall went under too. Now I'm
0:4242 secondsstuck. What do I do? An industry insider in Hong posted.
0:4848 secondsIt's 4:00 a.m. I'm afraid if I don't say this now, I won't have the courage tomorrow. I just had drinks with a major star. Celebrities are really struggling.
0:5858 secondsThis person can act, sing, and direct.
1:001 minuteI've been a fan since childhood. Now they are out of work. They told me more than half the entertainment industry has
1:071 minute, 7 secondsanxiety now, and the rest have already lost their minds. Hon is promoting AI performers abroad. AI influencers
1:161 minute, 16 secondsappeared even earlier with one making 140,000 a week, about $20,000 US.
1:231 minute, 23 secondsThere's even an AI actress announcing she's pregnant and needs to rest. I suppose she'll be selling baby formula
1:301 minute, 30 secondsnext. I didn't care before, but now I realize we don't have much time left to sit back and laugh at other people's
1:381 minute, 38 secondstroubles. Soon this ruthless world will feel completely unfamiliar.
1:431 minute, 43 secondsAn actress from Hnan complained online after a production failed to pay her more than 1,000 yen.
1:491 minute, 49 secondsI never expected to be threatened just for asking for the 1,600 yen I'm owed.
1:541 minute, 54 secondsThey said keep demanding payment publicly and will get directors to blacklist you. I was so angry I laughed.
2:002 minutesYou can't even pay 1,600 yen after 5 months and you think you can blacklist me. At this rate, AI will put both of us out of work before you get the chance.
You'll all get these directors together.
2:112 minutes, 11 secondsWhat are they? Your family? Good directors don't just take your side of the story. and directors who blindly listen to you probably aren't very good.
2:182 minutes, 18 secondsI'm not worried. Just pay me my 1,600 yen. People online keep thinking you must owe me 16 million yen. I'm so
2:262 minutes, 26 secondsembarrassed to be chasing such a small amount.
2:302 minutes, 30 secondsPeople are saying they won't come back to Hungian next year. With things this bad, I think you could leave tomorrow.
2:372 minutes, 37 secondsStaying another day means ignoring what AI short dramas are doing to this industry. There are two or three
2:442 minutes, 44 secondsliveaction jobs a day with hundreds of people competing in group chats. Getting work each day is like trying to pass the
2:512 minutes, 51 secondsSIBO service exam. Just two months ago, casting staff were asking if I was available. After working together a few
3:003 minutestimes, we finally got to know each other. Now, some have changed careers, some are unemployed, and some companies
3:073 minutes, 7 secondshave closed. I'm back to being a newcomer. Nobody knows me. My only way to get work now is to apply and audition
3:153 minutes, 15 secondsevery day. Competing with hundreds of people for a single day's work. Think that's beneath you? This industry is
3:233 minutes, 23 secondschanging so fast that soon nobody will even want to buy your face for AI.
3:283 minutes, 28 seconds[snorts] That's how harsh it is. The more I think about it, the more I want to cry.
Chapter 2: Economic struggle and decay
3:343 minutes, 34 secondsThe area is so quiet and deserted that it's hard to believe this is Hungen, China's Hollywood. Security footage from the early hours of October 20th shows a
3:433 minutes, 43 secondsrestaurant owner and his wife having a late night meal outside their shop. A bewildered young man suddenly approaches, saying he cannot afford food
3:503 minutes, 50 secondsand begs for a bite. The owner says their food has gone cold and gives him two large cups of instant noodles instead. He also suggests Kungen may not
3:593 minutes, 59 secondsbe right for him and that he should look for opportunities elsewhere.
4:064 minutes, 6 secondsI'm at Hungian's busiest night market, but there's hardly anyone here anymore.
4:104 minutes, 10 secondsHungian really has emptied out. An extra posted a video showing empty areas of Hungian. Productions once had to line up to film at the studios forbidden city
4:194 minutes, 19 secondsset. Now, the extra said it looks like a ghost town.
4:254 minutes, 25 secondsThings in Hen keep getting worse. Actors can't get roles and restaurants have no customers. A father messaged me a few
4:344 minutes, 34 secondsdays ago. He used his father's inheritance and his mother's retirement savings to open a restaurant here. He [snorts] opened right in the middle of
4:424 minutes, 42 secondsthe industry slump. And after just a little over two weeks, he's already close to shutting down. He asked me to
4:494 minutes, 49 secondsvisit and make a video to see if it might help. Honestly, I'm a live streamer whose popularity has faded. I don't know how much help I can be of.
4:594 minutes, 59 secondsAnd with him in this situation, I couldn't bring myself to charge him, but I do have plenty of free time now, so I'll go take a look.
5:085 minutes, 8 secondsWhen he arrived, the vlogger looked around outside, then sat down with the owner. He asked why the man had chosen this moment to open in Hungen. The owner
5:165 minutes, 16 secondssaid he had not lived there before. He expected heavy foot traffic in a tourist destination, and nearby shops seemed to be doing reasonably well. Confident in
5:255 minutes, 25 secondshis cooking, he decided to invest. The vlogger reminded him that Hungian is only a town. Its population is smaller than he imagined and business this year
has been especially bad. The owner said he had invested about 330,000 yen or about 46,000
5:415 minutes, 41 secondsand he was losing 700 yen a day. The vlogger said he was struggling too. He had booked just one day of filming that month earning 300 yen. After paying 200
5:515 minutes, 51 secondsyen to an assistant and 100 to an agent, he was out for another 25 yen for a taxi. He didn't even get a boxed meal.
5:585 minutes, 58 secondsHe had no social media advertising deals either. Live streaming brought in just over 2,000 yen, barely enough for rent.
6:066 minutes, 6 secondsThe restaurant opens from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., but afternoon, two men were the only people there. The owner is from
6:136 minutes, 13 secondsJooko, Hanan. His mother looks after his children back home, and the family currently has no other income.
6:196 minutes, 19 secondsDiscussing their situations, the blogger said he had considered changing careers, but he had already tried and failed too many times and did not want to start
6:276 minutes, 27 secondsover again. Savings from a few years earlier allowed him to stay in Hungen. He loves the town and enjoys acting.
6:346 minutes, 34 secondsEven one or two days of filming a month gives him a chance to do what he loves.
6:396 minutes, 39 secondsThe vlogger said he hoped to make more videos about life in Hungian, especially for extras. Some, he said, could no longer afford food. He invited any extras struggling to eat to message him.
6:506 minutes, 50 secondsHe couldn't do much, but could buy them a few meals. He encouraged people to keep going if they could. Those who could no longer manage should consider
6:586 minutes, 58 secondschanging careers sooner rather than later. A worker in the entertainment industry urged young people with acting dreams not to come to Hdian.
Chapter 3: The impact of AI on actors
7:097 minutes, 9 secondsThere are huge numbers of extras here, supposedly earning 100 a day. Please don't come. There's no point. Even 100
7:167 minutes, 16 secondsyen is on the high side. You actually take home just over 80 yen. Even if you find 10 days of work a month, that's 800
7:247 minutes, 24 secondsyen and only a little over 8,000 yen a year. These are among the lowest earners in society. Don't come. So why do so
7:327 minutes, 32 secondsmany still do it for 100 a day? They are holding on to a fantasy. Maybe one day a director will pick me, but the chance is practically zero. Less than 1 in 10,000.
7:447 minutes, 44 secondslower than getting struck by lightning.
7:497 minutes, 49 secondsI can't take it anymore. I have to speak honestly to every young woman thinking about entering this business. Unless this is the only path you can possibly
7:577 minutes, 57 secondstake, please look at other careers. Now, if you tell me acting is your dream, all I can say is make sure you can feed yourself first, then we can talk about
8:068 minutes, 6 secondsdreams. This industry stopped being what you imagined a long time ago, especially with AI. Now the impact on actors is
8:138 minutes, 13 secondsalmost unimaginable. The vlogger is an actress from Fujian who had filmed several productions in Hongjian. She had
8:208 minutes, 20 secondsalways associated it with plenty of crews and opportunities. But just 5 days into this visit, her view changed completely. Fewer productions and more
8:298 minutes, 29 secondsactors competing for roles left her anxious. Even earning enough to eat seemed difficult. She said she was reasonably attractive but did not have
8:378 minutes, 37 secondsthe trendy influencer look many people favor. She wanted to steadily improve her acting and earn roles through skill,
8:448 minutes, 44 secondspursuing bigger parts when available and taking smaller ones otherwise.
8:488 minutes, 48 secondsThe breaking point came when she met with a production. The director liked her and immediately chose her for the female lead. She was thrilled, feeling
renamed Shiaolu's work diary with all previous posts deleted. Dun's team told Chinese media she'd never endorsed or
12:1212 minutes, 12 secondspromoted the product and had never authorized anyone to use an AI version of her likeness. Actress Wen R had previously said she discovered an AI
12:2012 minutes, 20 secondslive stream impersonating her. She even confronted the account, but as AI impersonation spreads, celebrities are struggling to prove which appearances
12:2812 minutes, 28 secondsare authentic. when said in an interview that she got home from filming at 3 or 4 a.m. one day. She was not live streaming, but while scrolling on her
12:3612 minutes, 36 secondsphone, she saw what looked like herself doing just that. I went in and said, "If you're Wendron, then who am I?" Then they immediately blocked me. Now it feels hard to prove that I'm really me.
12:4712 minutes, 47 secondsTaiwanese actress Ruby Lynn also recently sent a legal notice to a mainland Chinese shampoo brand demanding the removal of unauthorized ads. The
12:5612 minutes, 56 secondsbrand had used her voice and likeness in AI generated ads posted on Do Yin and other social platforms. Taiwanese media reported on October 19th that ads
13:0513 minutes, 5 secondsfeaturing Lynn had appeared on mainline platforms including Doí Yin and Xiaoong Shu over the past few months. The shampoo seller began releasing the AI
13:1313 minutes, 13 secondsgenerated videos around midyear using her voice and likeness. One video showed her in a chamisole and shorts recommending the product. That portrayal
13:2213 minutes, 22 secondsdiffered sharply from her usual public image. After the ads drew attention, Lynn's team sent legal notices to the brands involved, demanding their
13:3013 minutes, 30 secondsremoval. Her team stressed that she did endorse the brand, but had not authorized alterations to her likeness or its use in AI generated ads. Lynn is
13:4013 minutes, 40 secondspreparing to start filming a new production. She has actively challenged the unauthorized AI ads. Asked whether she might license her likeness for AI
13:4713 minutes, 47 secondsadvertising in the future, she said, "I'm not considering that at all right now." Similar AI rights violations keep appearing in mainland China. E-commerce
13:5613 minutes, 56 secondsindustry sources said tools available on major online platforms make face swapping and voice cloning from celebrities public content extremely
14:0414 minutes, 4 secondsproduction costs range from just tens to hundreds of yen. The spread of AI in film and television along with repeated rights violations has also raised
Chapter 5: Market dominance and AI usage
14:1214 minutes, 12 secondsindustry concerns about excess AI computing capacity in China and how it's being used. A business report recently
14:2014 minutes, 20 secondsreleased to investors by publicly traded CO group said 55% of AI tokens used in China go toward short dramas and
14:2814 minutes, 28 secondsaudiovisisual content while 24% go to e-commerce advertising only 15% go toward research and development tokens
14:3714 minutes, 37 secondsare the unit's AI systems process the figures came from CL groups investors relations activity record based on those
14:4414 minutes, 44 secondsfigures AI short dramas and audiovisisual generation consume more and twice as many tokens as technology research and development. After the
14:5214 minutes, 52 secondsreport, the idea that half of China's AI computing power was going toward formulaic entertainment dramas quickly became a trending social media talking
15:0015 minutespoint. The report said short dramas consume such a large share of tokens because the business requires extensive
15:0715 minutes, 7 secondsaudiovisisual generation and rapid token processing. A Chinese media report said AI dramas with realistic human
15:1415 minutes, 14 secondscharacters face stricter visual requirements. They typically consume two to three times as many tokens as AI animated dramas. During production,
teams also repeatedly generate and screen footage to meet directors demands for storytelling and camera shots, consuming even more tokens. Experts
15:3115 minutes, 31 secondsquestioned whether concentrating so much of China's computing capacity on a single content format is an efficient way to put technology to use. A report
15:3915 minutes, 39 secondson AIdriven innovation in the global micro drama industry jointly released by the development research center of China's National Radio and Television
15:4715 minutes, 47 secondsAdministration said the global market entered a period of explosive growth in 2025. Its total size approached $18
15:5515 minutes, 55 secondsbillion US with China accounting for more than 14 billion. From January through August this year, 430,000 micro
16:0316 minutes, 3 secondsdramas were released in China, 13 times the total for all of 2025.
16:0916 minutes, 9 secondsMany users complained that short drama platforms use plots and algorithms to keep viewers hooked. They said they kept watching, lost motivation for other
16:1716 minutes, 17 secondsactivities, and felt like their minds were becoming duller. Some called the dramas a new electronic drug or digital opium. The CCP has also been heavily
16:2616 minutes, 26 secondspromoting what it calls new quality productive forces as it tries to compete with the United States. But evidence from multiple sources indicates that
16:3516 minutes, 35 secondsmany supposedly advanced Chinese AI systems steal data from American AI systems. Some even connect their systems to American AI services without
16:4316 minutes, 43 secondsauthorization, using them to handle customer requests. Experts said tighter restrictions on stealing advanced technology and importing high-end chips
16:5116 minutes, 51 secondshave left China's AI industry with a contradiction. It has excess computing capacity overall, yet it still lacks enough high-end capacity for training
16:5916 minutes, 59 secondsand inference, the process of running AI models. They said the large share of AI computing power devoted to film and television reflects an industry diverted
17:0817 minutes, 8 secondsfrom its core purpose as advanced strategically important sectors stall.
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