# deepfakes
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Douyin Tightens Rules Around Seedance 2.0: Real‑ID Required and IP Generation Blocked as Anti‑Infringement Becomes Priority
Douyin’s executive confirmed Seedance 2.0 is live for testing but requires real‑person verification and blocks creation using real‑person facial references or recognised IP characters. The company says its largest recent internal effort has been strengthening anti‑infringement measures and solicits user reports to remove problematic content. The moves reflect broader tensions between rapid AI innovation, copyright protection and regulatory scrutiny.
Chinese ‘Nano Manju’ Content Pipeline Adopts Seedance 2.0, Signaling Mass‑Production of AI‑Generated Short Drama
A Chinese production platform for short, comic‑style episodic drama has integrated Seedance 2.0’s full feature set and plans to launch after Lunar New Year, enabling mass automated generation of video content. The integration accelerates automation in the creative chain, with commercial upside for rapid IP production and significant legal, ethical and regulatory risks around deepfakes, copyright and labour displacement.
China’s Cyberspace Watchdogs Cracked Down on Unlabelled AI Deepfakes, Removing Hundreds of Thousands of Items
China’s internet regulator has removed over 543,000 pieces of AI-generated content and sanctioned 13,421 accounts for failing to label synthetic material. The enforcement targets fabricated human-interest videos, deepfakes impersonating public figures, grotesque edits of children’s characters, and marketplaces selling tools to strip AI labels.
ByteDance’s Seedance2.0 Redraws the Map for AI Video — and Puts Platforms in the Driver’s Seat
ByteDance’s Seedance2.0 is a step change in AI‑generated video, able to produce cinema‑grade short films from simple prompts and impressing senior industry figures. The model both democratises content creation by lowering technical barriers and raises clear risks around deepfakes, prompting ByteDance to impose early safeguards.
Chinese Studio Drops Near‑Seven‑Minute In‑Engine Teaser for Black Myth: Zhong Kui — and Its Founder Warns About AI Deepfakes
Game Science released a near seven‑minute in‑engine video for Black Myth: Zhong Kui as a Lunar New Year greeting; the clip contains no gameplay and ends on a mysterious tableau. CEO Feng Ji separately warned that advanced video‑generation models such as Seedance2.0 make it easy to fabricate realistic footage and urged the public to be sceptical of unverified videos, particularly those showing identifiable people.
Keling AI’s 3.0 Push: A Chinese Model Suite Aiming to Automate End‑to‑End Video Production
Keling AI has launched a 3.0 series of multimodal models—Video 3.0, Video 3.0 Omni and Image 3.0—positioned as an end‑to‑end solution for image and video generation, editing and post‑production. The suite emphasises native multimodal I/O and subject consistency, offering speed and integration for creators while raising questions about compute demands, governance and misuse risks.
Alibaba Open‑Sources Qwen3‑TTS, Bringing Multilingual Voice Cloning to Developers
Alibaba’s Qwen team has open‑sourced Qwen3‑TTS, a family of text‑to‑speech models in 1.7B and 0.6B sizes supporting voice cloning and multilingual, dialect‑aware synthesis. The release aims to broaden developer access and accelerate voice applications while raising urgent questions about misuse, detection and governance.