Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator

ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0 earlier this week. The updated model is currently available to Chinese users of the Jianying app and, the company says, will soon be available to global users of its CapCut app. Like OpenAI’s Sora, Seedance lets users create videos — currently limited to 15 seconds — by entering a text prompt.

The tool has drawn criticism for an apparent lack of guardrails around using the likeness of real people and studios’ intellectual property. After one X user posted a brief video showing Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt that they said was created by "a 2 line prompt in seedance 2," "Deadpool" screenwriter Rhett Reese wrote, "I hate to say it.

It’s likely over for us." Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin demanded that ByteDance "immediately cease its infringing activity," saying, "In a single day, the Chinese AI service Seedance 2.0 has engaged in unauthorized use of U.S.

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