Can Metahuman be used for AI training in academic purposes?

Hi, i am also doing something similar. From my understanding this is about the Metahuman Technology. If you go to the Definitions section the Metahuman Technology does not include the downloaded characters which based on the EULA are bounded by the UE Content EULA. This EULA also states that you cannot modify the technology but in fact you can modify the downloaded characters with an external tool like blender. In the UE Content EULA in the MetaHuman Content Addendum section there is no such restriction for the downloaded characters. There was sometime before (“d. use MetaHuman Content for the training or testing of any artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural network or similar technology.”) but they removed it when the noAI tag was introduced (see https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula-change-log/content). In this EULA its also stated that you own all the rights for renders (images) that depict metahumans. The only restriction is that the images should be rendered inside Unreal Engine. If you search scholar you will find papers/datasets with Metahumans which is confusing. I guess this snipet is to protect from anyone who will try to mine assets or any other part of the technology and build/train an AI to generate new 3D characters, thus creating a tool/technology that will be a direct competitor with MHC.

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