Twinnin
UK consent-licensing platform for AI-generated likeness and voice, used by ITV News for a documentary reenactment.
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Licensed consenting performers' likenesses for the reenactment sequences
Media's AI Pivot: ITV News airs consented AI facesBackground
ITV News and ITN used Twinnin, a UK likeness-and-voice consent-licensing platform, to generate AI reenactment sequences for the Exposure documentary Terror In The Skies: The Liquid Bomb Plot, published around 24 July 2026. Twinnin recruited performers who consented to their likeness being used and who received an end-title credit; AI visual-effects artist Andrew Evans then altered facial features, body shape and physique so the results are stylised characters rather than digital copies of the contributors.
The deployment is ITV News' first publicly disclosed use of AI in current affairs rather than entertainment, and it settled consent and credit commercially before UK or EU regulation caught up. Twinnin's licensing model, paying and crediting performers for their likeness rather than generating faces without consent, distinguishes it from AI reenactment approaches that have drawn criticism elsewhere in broadcasting.
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