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    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/akool.json"
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    "slug": "creatify",
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    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/creatify.json"
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    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/d-id.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "elai-io",
    "name": "Elai.io",
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    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/elai-io.json"
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    "slug": "google-flow",
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    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/google-flow.json"
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    "slug": "heygen",
    "name": "HeyGen",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/heygen.json"
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   {
    "slug": "jogg-ai",
    "name": "Jogg AI",
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   {
    "slug": "kapwing",
    "name": "Kapwing",
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   {
    "slug": "synthesia",
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   {
    "slug": "tavus",
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    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/tavus.json"
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   {
    "slug": "topview-ai",
    "name": "TopView",
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    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/topview-ai.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "vidnoz",
    "name": "Vidnoz AI",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/vidnoz.json"
   },
   {
    "slug": "virbo",
    "name": "Wondershare Virbo",
    "type": "tool",
    "json": "https://plainly.guide/api/tools/virbo.json"
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  {
   "field": "access",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
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   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
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   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
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   "note": "Terms transfer ownership of generated content to you (5.2.3.3) but also say the services are for the user's personal use except via API (6.7.1). API users must show a 'Powered by Argil.ai' badge (6.3). No explicit commercial clause."
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   "field": "licence",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "confidence": "high",
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  {
   "field": "likeness_cloning",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Identity check (KYC) and a dedicated consent step, possibly a liveness recording, before making your avatar. Business users making avatars of others must hold consents. Voice cloning not described in the part read."
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  {
   "field": "made_by",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "note": "Terms: Delaware corporation, registered office in Wilmington, Delaware."
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  {
   "field": "modalities",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "field": "openness",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "field": "pricing",
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  {
   "field": "skill_level",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/pricing",
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   "field": "tasks",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Terms describe user avatars made from a video of yourself, generic avatars and generated videos. Features page not read."
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  {
   "field": "trains_on_outputs",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
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   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "s.5.2.3.1 says your avatar video isn't used to train general models; s.12.3 grants rights to use your content and scripts for training its AI. Contradictory."
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   "field": "watermark",
   "url": "https://www.argil.ai/terms",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "low",
   "confidence_label": "Inferred or from a secondary source; needs review",
   "note": "Terms forbid removing provenance watermarks on the service (9.3) but don't say when they are added."
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 "attribution": "Data from Plainly Guide (https://plainly.guide). Please credit Plainly with a link to the entry page when you use it."
}