Doubao denies Hengdian deal to feed 150,000 extras’ likenesses to ByteDance models

The denial is notably narrow: it rejects the reported framing but leaves the existence and scope of any Hengdian–ByteDance cooperation unaddressed, which keeps the underlying question open rather than settled. That matters most for the extras whose likenesses and voices are the asset in question, and for studios weighing how performer data gets licensed for model training. The absence of detail is itself the signal — whether a formal arrangement surfaces, and on what consent terms, is the thing to watch.