“If I license my face, I have no idea how AI might eventually change it or whether it could portray me in degrading ways.”
The going rate is 99 to 500 yuan per episode. That is fifteen to seventy-four dollars to hand your face to a microdrama pipeline. Contracts do not say who ends up using the likeness or for what, and the scope of authorization is left deliberately vague. Actors get a one-time fee. The platforms get a biometric asset with no expiration date.