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AI clone of yourself – how can you make one?

ended 03. October 2025

People are making AI clones of themselves. 

  • How do you make one?
  • What are the pros of making one? What can you use it for?
  • What are the cons of making one? Any dangers?
  • Any other thoughts on them?

Responses by 8am tomorrow.

4 responses from the Newspage community

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Tony Redondo
Founder at Cosmos Currency Exchange
Forget “Beam me up, Scotty”. The technology has developed so quickly that science fiction has become a part of everyday life. Simply feed your writings/emails to train your very own Text chatbot in your style. Record a few minutes of audio samples to clone your voice. Submit a couple of minutes of video footage to create your very own video avatar. The pros are obvious. Scale your time, create content without constant filming, preserve knowledge and expertise, and improve your business efficiency. The dangers are equally obvious and include identity theft if someone accesses your clone, deepfake potential for unauthorized content, and data security concerns. Best to be transparent about when people are interacting with your AI Avatar versus the real you and choose platforms with strong security and clear data ownership terms.
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Mitali Deypurkaystha
AI Governance Strategist & CMO at AISensa
I recently created an AI clone of an event organiser that amazed the audience. It spoke Mandarin and even claimed to support Newcastle (to his dismay, a lifelong Sunderland fan!). To build a convincing clone, you need the right platform (I use HeyGen, Tavus, or Spirit.me), minimal movement during recording, and clear audio with a mic positioned close to the mouth. The real opportunity lies in using clones for repetitive tasks like training videos or answering FAQs on a website. My most impactful case was with a business whose five managers spent hours repeating answers to their young teams. I cloned each manager, feeding the clones with all FAQs, giving staff freedom to ask questions endlessly without repercussions while freeing managers to focus on strategic work. Today, clones are still easy to spot. And I urge all my clients to be transparent with customers and users. But as realism improves, ethical safeguards will be vital to prevent misuse by those seeking to deceive.
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Christopher Spencer
Owner at Peak Media Marketing
Platforms like ElevenLabs, HeyGen, and Synthesia map your face, voice, and mannerisms. Record a script, then type what you want said and your clone delivers it.
There are, as with anything, several notable downsides to making an AI clone / avatar of a person. It could be a case of someone’s rights to their own identity.

So for instance if you left a job on less than peachy terms. You might request that your likeness no longer be used for any materials created using it and this takes us into a very contentious area of employment law.

This combined with any residual revenues that are generated by the use of the avatar means that there are legal and financial minefields waiting to happen.

Let’s hope that the legal team are not AI clones. Least not because the very notion of an eloquence of of AI synthesised lawyers in itself, is the stuff that nightmares are made of. If James Cameron had thought of that, instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator would have been a horror.
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Colette Mason
AI Ethics Consultant at Clever Clogs AI
The real world is messy. Humans adapt in the moment based on context, emotion, body language, interruptions, fatigue. A robotic clone trained on your best self under optimal conditions will fail catastrophically when the real you would read the room and you change approach. Belief in clones is critical misunderstanding of what makes human communication work set alongside AI limitations in 2025.

The premise is seductive. But what gets automated best are the interactions that don't require you anyway, like FAQs and throwaway visual gimmicks. Meanwhile, the tricky stuff—angry clients, nuanced negotiations, knowing when to break your own rules—still lands on your desk, except now you're also debugging why your digital self just torpedoed a sensitive task.

Post-Covid people increasingly yearn for connection not fakery. AI blindness is 'a thing' as people scroll by yet another 3D doll image. Human-in-the-loop collaboration is liberating, full AI automation is a huge reputational risk.