ByteDance's New AI Video Tool Is So Realistic That Hollywood Is Literally Threatening to Sue

If you've been on the internet this week, you've probably seen it: Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt throwing punches on a crumbling bridge. Except it never happened. The whole thing was cooked up by Seedance 2.0, a brand new AI video tool made by ByteDance (yeah, the same company behind TikTok).

The clip went mega-viral after Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson posted it, and the quality is genuinely terrifying. We're not talking about those janky AI videos with melting fingers anymore. This looks like it could be ripped straight from a Marvel movie. Deadpool co-writer Rhett Reese saw it and said 'It's over for us.'

Hollywood studios immediately went into panic mode. Disney reportedly threatened legal action, and ByteDance has already said it will 'restrain' the tool. But the genie is out of the bottle. People are using Seedance to make everything from Will Smith fighting a spaghetti monster to the cast of Friends reimagined as otters.

The big question everyone's asking: if a random person with a text prompt can make something this good, what happens to the millions of people who work in film and television? That's not a hypothetical anymore. It's happening right now.

As reported by BBC News, The Guardian, and The New York Times.

Source: BBC News