AI-powered Elmo and Cookie Monster are shilling $25 video messages on Cameo

Cameo has added a pair of timeless superstars to its stable of celebrities (a term used loosely in some cases) available for personalized video greetings. Cookie Monster and Elmo, who may or may not have fallen on hard times, will shamelessly plug their services on the six-year-old platform, offering to count to your kid's age or rattle off words that start with the same letter as your child's name -- for $25 a pop. Perhaps that relatively low price for the Sesame Street icons is because humans ...