Source: Sixth Tone RSS
The business model of monetizing user-generated biometric data through licensing agreements is collapsing under its own math—platforms promise substantial payouts for face rights but deliver pittances because supply vastly exceeds genuine commercial demand from advertisers and content studios. This reveals how platforms extract maximum user data by inflating income expectations, then fragment the actual revenue pool so thinly that individual users recoup almost nothing. The real value capture shifts entirely to the platform operators and their commercial clients.