What happens when your face, voice, gestures, and cultural identity become assets that can be sold, licensed, and reproduced forever?
In this episode of Innovation Waves, we explore the unsettling frontier of AI-generated identity: digital clones, synthetic celebrity, ownership of likeness, and the possibility of becoming a digital ghost in your own lifetime. Starting from the story of a social media star reportedly considering the sale of his entire brand and AI-replicable persona, we unpack the deeper questions behind the deal: who are you when an AI can convincingly be you, who owns that version, and what happens when identity itself becomes a market?
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Written and curated by Fabrizio Rinaldi.
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Source article: https://innovation-waves.com/2026/02/02/a-billion-dollars-for-a-ghost-are-we-ready-to-sell-our-digital-souls/