Synthesia may use videos, images, and audio you upload — including recordings used to build AI avatars — to train and improve their AI systems, unless you tell them not to.
Your facial likeness and voice recordings uploaded for avatar creation may be used to train Synthesia's commercial AI, potentially improving products sold to other customers, unless you actively opt out by emailing privacy@synthesia.io.
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Compare across platforms →This means your likeness and voice could be used commercially to develop AI products beyond your own videos, and the opt-out is not automatic — you must proactively contact Synthesia to prevent this.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) (legitimate interests) and Art. 9 (special category data if biometric data is involved) require documented lawful basis for AI training use; CCPA/CPRA §1798.100 and §1798.120 provide California residents the right to opt out of sale/sharing; EU AI Act Arts. 10 and 53 impose data governance requirements on training data for general-purpose AI models. ICO (UK) and relevant EU DPAs have enforcement authority. (2)
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