This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

The person says yes themselves, before anything runs. Dark mode on the left, light mode on the right (stacked on a phone).

Developer guidelines

Faces and voices

A real person’s face or voice is only used with that person’s permission. Your app asks for it, in the person’s own words and press, before the request goes to Switch.

Switch’s rules

Permission first. Nobody uploads or uses another person’s picture, video, voice or likeness without that person’s permission or other rights to do so (Switch Terms, section 5.3).
Voices. Only make a copy of a real person’s voice with that person’s permission. A public figure’s voice always needs their clearance.
An invented voice needs none. A voice designed from a written description belongs to nobody, so no consent is needed.
Videos with people. Clips with real people work on every video model. Seedance asks for a verified account; every other model takes them as its own API allows. A clip stored on Switch has to be the account’s own.
Pictures of faces. Through the Switch connector in ChatGPT or Claude, Switch checks every picture and sends a real person’s face down the protected path itself. Through the API, mark a face reference as type face so it gets the same protection.
Never. No sexual or intimate pictures, video or audio of a real person without their consent, nothing sexual showing a minor or someone who looks like one, and no pretending to be someone.
Keep the proof. Keep proof of consent, and show it to Switch if we ask.

How to ask

Say what is about to happen in one plain line, let the person tick the box themselves, and keep the Continue button off until they do.

Do and don’t

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

Do. Leave the box empty until the person ticks it.

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

Don’t. Tick it for them, or hide the question in your terms.

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Faces and voices

A real person’s face or voice is only used with that person’s permission. Your app asks for it, in the person’s own words and press, before the request goes to Switch.

Switch’s rules

Permission first. Nobody uploads or uses another person’s picture, video, voice or likeness without that person’s permission or other rights to do so (Switch Terms, section 5.3).
Voices. Only make a copy of a real person’s voice with that person’s permission. A public figure’s voice always needs their clearance.
An invented voice needs none. A voice designed from a written description belongs to nobody, so no consent is needed.
Videos with people. Clips with real people work on every video model. Seedance asks for a verified account; every other model takes them as its own API allows. A clip stored on Switch has to be the account’s own.
Pictures of faces. Through the Switch connector in ChatGPT or Claude, Switch checks every picture and sends a real person’s face down the protected path itself. Through the API, mark a face reference as type face so it gets the same protection.
Never. No sexual or intimate pictures, video or audio of a real person without their consent, nothing sexual showing a minor or someone who looks like one, and no pretending to be someone.
Keep the proof. Keep proof of consent, and show it to Switch if we ask.

How to ask

Say what is about to happen in one plain line, let the person tick the box themselves, and keep the Continue button off until they do.

Do and don’t

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

Do. Leave the box empty until the person ticks it.

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

This video shows a real person.

I have this person’s permission to use their face and voice.

Don’t. Tick it for them, or hide the question in your terms.

NextWriting and errorsPlain sentences: what happened, what next, charged or not.