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This provision restricts a specific category of potentially harmful synthetic media use involving the attribution of sensitive personal characteristics including medical conditions, disabilities, and political views to real individuals depicted by avatars, with tiered permissions based on service plan and consent.
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Compare across platforms →"Using a Stock Avatar in a manner that is meant to, or is reasonably likely to, make viewers think the real-life actor personally holds, endorses, or actually has your stated opinions, characteristics or conditions (for example, publicly saying or strongly implying that the actor has a specific medical condition, disability or political view) - in the case of Stock Avatars, you may do so only on enterprise Service plans and in the case of a Custom Avatar, you may do so only with appropriate consent from the individual.Excerpt from Synthesia's Acceptable Use Policy
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This provision restricts a specific category of potentially harmful synthetic media use involving the attribution of sensitive personal characteristics including medical conditions, disabilities, and political views to real individuals depicted by avatars, with tiered permissions based on service plan and consent.
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