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ByteDance stops uploads of human photos for seedance 2.0

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One day after ByteDance’s new video generation model, seedance 2.0, went viral, the company banned users from uploading photos of real humans for video generation, according to early test users. Why the sudden change? ByteDance hasn’t explained. 

But this looks like preemptive risk control to ...