ByteDance pledged tighter safeguards for Seedance after cease-and-desist letters from The Walt Disney Company and Paramount Global over alleged IP violations. Studios and unions warn that the AI video tool infringes copyrighted content and likeness rights.

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - ByteDance's new video-generating artificial intelligence model has already impressed the likes of Elon Musk and gone viral in China, where it has been compared to DeepSeek and won praise for its ability to produce cinematic storylines with just a few prompts.

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has come under legal fire for allegedly allowing users of its platform to create videos featuring copyrighted characters. Disney and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have accused ByteDance of using copyrighted work to train its AI,

Rhett Reese, a scriptwriter known for his "Deadpool" films, said in an interview that the Cruise-Pitt video had sent a "cold shiver" up his spine

By Liam Mo, Fanny Potkin and Che Pan BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (Reuters) - China's ByteDance is developing an artificial intelligence chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture it, two people familiar with the matter said,

Paramount Skydance has become the latest major Hollywood studio to accuse ByteDance of illegally exploiting copyrighted material to train and power its artificial intelligence tools, escalating an industrywide backlash against generative AI models tied to the Chinese tech giant.