Seedance 2.0 has flooded the internet with AI-generated videos of beloved actors and characters. Disney is taking aim at its owner ByteDance.

The Walt Disney Company has sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, accusing the Chinese tech giant of using its copyrighted characters to train and power an AI video generation model

Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in “blatant infringement” of its intellectual property with its Seedance video and Seedream image generative AI platforms, alleging the Chinese internet giant is illegally ripping off IP including “South Park,

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Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist for using its characters on Seedance. When OpenAI's Sora did it, however, Disney struck a deal.

Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its copyrighted material without permission. As first reported on by Axios, the Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance,

Disney has sent ByteDance a cease and desist letter to ByteDance over their new Seedance 2.0 AI generative video tool.

Gemini and Nano Banana are now saying no to Disney character prompts