The Chinese streaming platform iQIYI launched an "artist database" through which more than a hundred actors are making their likeness available to creators of AI-generated content via the new tool Nadou Pro, which allows users to generate and edit short films. The announcement met with fierce resistance, with dozens of actors declaring on social media that they had not signed up, while fans feared that human actors would lose work as a result. Senior Vice President Liu Wenfeng called this a "misunderstanding" and emphasized that actors retain control over their likeness. Legal expert Li Zhenwu warned that once deployed, image data is technically difficult to control due to risks such as unauthorized retraining of models.

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