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Bruce Willis sells rights to permit deepfake 'digital twin' of himself to be created...

• Daily Mail

Two-time Emmy winner Bruce Willis can still appear in movies after selling his image rights to Deepcake, a Delaware-based company founded by Ukrainian-born CEO Maria Chmir, last year before his aphasia diagnosis.

Engineers at the AI-powered content optimization web platform created a ultra-realistic 'digital twin' of the actor, 67, by putting images of his face into their network.

In March the Die Hard veteran's family shared news he was retiring from acting due to the condition, which is a neuro-cognitive disorder that effects the sufferers ability to speak and understand language.