ByteDance Shelves Seedance 2.0 as Hollywood's Copyright War Goes Nuclear
The most impressive AI video generator on the planet just got grounded — not by a technical failure, but by a wall of lawyers. ByteDance has officially suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0, the AI video model that went viral earlier this year for producing disturbingly realistic clips. The reason? A coordinated legal blitz from Disney, Netflix, and Paramount that makes it crystal clear: Hollywood isn’t going to let its intellectual property become free training data. ...