Seedance

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. ...

Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt trading punches on a crumbling rooftop. Donald Trump doing kung fu in a bamboo grove. Will Smith battling a spaghetti monster in what looks like a $200 million blockbuster. None of it is real. All of it was made in minutes by a Chinese AI tool that just sent Hollywood into full meltdown. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 launched last week and immediately became the most controversial AI release since DeepSeek rattled Silicon Valley. The clips it produces are so convincing that Deadpool screenwriter Rhett Reese looked at the Cruise vs. Pitt footage and wrote: “I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.” ...