The models used are mentioned on the page; primarily it's H3 Max Director, Jev, and an agent to manage context and send updates to Director.
> This is our first experiment in building a persistent Social World Engine — a world that continues to exist, evolve, and remember even when nobody is watching.
The audience is meant to direct the show. There's a crypto token involved in paying for it. Make of that what you will.
Personally I think it's an invitation to a lawsuit. Back in the day people were running AI Spongebob on Twitch and that got killed for copyright infringement. And this isn't a cartoon, it's Jim Carrey.
It seems that the viewers pay with USDC, no? There's nothing inherently sketchy about that.