Nick Perry breaks down CapCut's terms of service, which give ByteDance a perpetual license to any content you create in the app, including deleted drafts and your facial data. ByteDance can use this to train AI and generate new videos of you without additional permission.
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Never ever use CapCut again without knowing this, because you're literally signing your own face away. Here's why. You know how every app has that 4,000-page-long terms of service page that you never read? Yeah, well, CapCut's one literally says that they use your content to improve all of ByteDance's technologies, which isn't just the CapCut editing app, by the way. It's also CapCut's AI tools, which means anytime someone prompts handsome, ripped, and jacked American cowboy, it could generate an image or video of you, because their terms give them a perpetual a revocable license to your content, your videos, your voice, and your face. Even if the videos are from your drafts, and even if you delete them. Which is why you need to—