Cast from 1,000+ diverse AI actors, paste your script, and ship a scroll-stopping ad in about 90 seconds.
100,000+ videos generated
by creators worldwide
What are AI actors?
An AI actor is a synthetic, consent-licensed spokesperson that can deliver any script you write with native lip-sync, natural body language, and controllable emotion. Under the hood it is a neural voice model, a facial-animation model, and a rendering pipeline composing the final video. The finished clip looks and sounds like a creator filmed it on their phone, but the entire production happens in the cloud in about a minute.
The practical use case is short-form paid social — the hook-heavy, test-everything world where performance teams need fifteen creative variants a week and real UGC creators can only deliver two. AI actors collapse the casting-shooting-editing loop into a single prompt, which is why direct-response brands, growth agencies, and solo founders now anchor their ad workflows around them.
1,000+ actors
A deep roster spanning age, gender, ethnicity, wardrobe, and energy — not a thin avatar grid.
40+ languages
Native voice, lip-sync, and prosody per language — no dubbed-English tells.
Consent-licensed
Every actor signs a commercial release. No scraped faces, no surprise reuse fees.
Feature deep-dives
Four chapters that separate a real actor roster from a stock avatar grid.
The detail you need before you commit a quarter of paid-social budget to synthetic creative.
Use cases
Five ways teams use AI actors inside ShortGenius to replace or extend real-creator UGC without losing conversion rate. Performance marketers, agencies, DTC brands, localization teams, and founders all anchor different parts of the creative stack on synthetic talent.
DTC hook testing
Ship 20 hook variants on Monday, kill the bottom 17 by Thursday, and double down on the three that beat your CPA benchmark. AI actors run the hook-testing cadence filmed creators physically cannot match.
Agency creative scale
Agencies running 40+ client accounts hit a weekly creative quota per client without staffing a producer bench. One strategist plus one editor outputs what used to take a five-person production team.
Testimonial variants
Turn five-star review text into 30 testimonial videos without tracking down the customer. Pick an actor whose demographic matches the reviewer, paste the quoted copy, and generate a statement-style ad.
Multi-language ads
Launch the same creative in 12 markets at once with native-sounding voice, lip-sync, and on-screen captions per language. Accent and regional vocabulary are handled automatically.
Creator & founder content
Clone your own face and voice once, then let the platform deliver your personal-brand videos. Founders use it for daily LinkedIn posts, TikTok hook variants, and investor-update recaps.
Actor library
The library contains 1,000+ AI actors and grows every month. We weight the roster for real-world representation rather than stock-photo polish — spanning ages from early 20s through 70s, a balanced gender mix including non-binary performers, and apparent ethnicities across African, East Asian, South Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, European, and Indigenous roots.
Wardrobe and energy vary from athleisure-casual to business-professional to high-fashion editorial, and settings range from kitchens and home offices to cafes, gyms, and studios so your creative matches your brand without feeling typecast. Every actor is consent-licensed for commercial use, and you can clone your own likeness into the same library and keep it private to your workspace.
Honest trade-offs
AI actors vs real UGC creators
ShortGenius AI actorsSynthetic, consent-licensed spokespeople- Turnaround per 30-second ad
- 1–2 minutes, fully rendered
- Cost per creative variant
- Included in plan; 60 renders/mo on Pro
- Hook A/B testing at scale
- Batch 50 variants in parallel
- On-location product demos
- Limited — use B-roll overlays
- Authenticity for review-style UGC
- Strong for scripted testimonials
- Language and localization
- 40+ languages, instant re-dub
- Rights and usage
- Full commercial license included
- Turnaround per 30-second ad
- 3–10 days booking + shoot + edit
- Cost per creative variant
- $150–$800 per script per creator
- Hook A/B testing at scale
- Usually 1–3 hooks per shoot
- On-location product demos
- Native strength — in-home, real context
- Authenticity for review-style UGC
- Strongest for genuine reactions
- Language and localization
- Requires new creator per market
- Rights and usage
- Per-creator contract, reuse fees common
We are pro-UGC. The best stacks blend both — AI actors for hook-testing volume, real creators for authenticity moments.
Ethics & consent
Every actor in the library has signed a commercial release covering synthetic likeness and voice use across paid, organic, and editorial channels. We never scrape faces from the web, and we do not accept uploads of real public figures, political candidates, or private individuals without a verified consent record from the rights holder.
Voice-clone uploads require an explicit consent phrase spoken by the rights holder, clones are private to your workspace by default, and any actor — including your own likeness — can be revoked at any time. Finished videos ship with C2PA provenance metadata so platforms and viewers can verify their origin. Safeguards are a feature, not a footnote.
Verified consent
Signed releases for every library actor.
Private clones
Your likeness stays inside your workspace.
Commercial license
No royalties, no reuse fees at scale.
C2PA provenance
Metadata-tagged outputs for platform trust.
See AI actors in action.
Start freePricing
AI actors are included on every paid ShortGenius plan. The free tier ships three finished videos per month with no watermark on preview exports, and Pro unlocks 60 renders a month, voice cloning, UGC avatars, social scheduling, and commercial-use licensing for $69/month. There are no per-video royalties and no reuse fees when a winning creative scales across accounts.
Free
3 videos per month, watermark-free preview, full AI actor library access.
Pro · $69/month
60 renders a month, voice cloning, UGC avatars, commercial license, social scheduling.
Full plan-by-plan breakdown on the pricing page.
AI actor questions, answered
Every actor in the ShortGenius library has signed a commercial release covering synthetic likeness and voice use across paid ads, organic social, and editorial content. We never scrape faces from the web, and we do not let customers generate videos featuring real public figures or private individuals without a verified consent record. If you clone your own likeness, you keep ownership and can revoke it at any time.
Cast your first AI actor today.
Ship three AI-actor video ads this week on the free plan. 1,000+ diverse, consent-licensed performers. 40+ languages. Full commercial rights baked into every render.
No credit card required.