Liu Xing, head of public relations for Doubao, refutes the claim that Hengdian and ByteDance are training a large model with portraits and voices from 150,000 extras: The rumor is seriously false.

Liu Xing stated that the Hengdian Film and Television AI Service Platform project aims to build public digital infrastructure by converting film base real-world assets into high-quality datasets. This will help production crews efficiently select locations and prepare, lowering the barrier for small and medium-sized film enterprises to use AI. Project data belongs to Hengdian or authorized parties; usage of portraits and voices requires individual consent and will not be used to train ByteDance large models.