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

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, a powerful new video model, is drawing alarm in Hollywood after it churned out a slew of copyrighted IP.

ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 less than a week ago and enraged artists everywhere with a viral clip AI-generated clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting. Unsurprisingly, the AI video-making tool has reportedly already received multiple cease-and-desist letters around copyright infringement.

ByteDance is facing scrutiny over Seedance 2.0, an AI video tool creating Hollywood star deepfakes and sparking copyright concerns.

ByteDance will take steps to prevent the unauthorised use of intellectual property on its artificial intelligence (AI) video generator Seedance 2.0, the Chinese technology firm says, following threats of legal action from US studios,

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,

The US entertainment accuses ByteDance of stealing its intellectual property by training its new AI tool, Seedance, on Disney characters and images of real-life actors. ByteDance says it will address Disney’s concerns.

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