Who runs AI Empire
AI Empire is run by Ai Emperor. He builds AI influencer characters on open-weight models, and he built the tools this community runs on. 2.7k members on Skool, as of 2 Oct 2026.
Ai Emperor works under a pseudonym and doesn’t show his face.
What he’s built
- The pipeline the course teaches. One face, a 50-image dataset, a character LoRA, then a generator and a private bot. All on GPUs rented by the hour.
- The free Discord face generator. Anyone in the community gets 10 images a day, free.
- The public repos. The AI Empire Dataset Maker, the LoRA trainer template and the Telegram bot, all on GitHub.
- Fanvue partner. Which is why the course points you to Fanvue, and why graduates can get help from Fanvue’s team.
The rules this site follows
- Original characters only. We never use or teach using a real person’s face or photos, and never face-swap anyone real.
- Always disclosed. Every character here is AI-generated and labelled as AI, on this site and on the platforms we teach.
- Honest numbers. No made-up income figures, member counts or testimonials. Every number has a date.
- Safe for work. Nothing explicit on this site.
- Referral links are marked. See the affiliate disclosure.
Models and licences
We use open-weight models you run yourself: you download the model to your own rented GPU and generate there. No platform holds your character, and the LoRA file you train is yours.
Open-weight doesn’t mean “no rules”. Every model ships with its own licence, and some limit commercial use or ask for attribution. Read the licence on the model’s page before you sell anything you make with it. A few optional steps in the course use paid image APIs instead. The lessons say which, and what they cost.
Whatever the licence says, the platform rules still apply: the character must be original, and she must be disclosed as AI.
Where to find us
- SkoolThe course and the community. The best place to ask a question.
- DiscordThe free face generator.
- YouTubeThe free video series.
- Telegram channelUpdates.
- GitHubThe public repos.