The owner of TikTok released a new AI video tool last week that has worried many Hollywood studios.

ByteDance has said it will work to strengthen safeguards on a new AI video-making tool, following copyright concerns and legal threats from Hollywood.

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

One screenwriter called it "terrifying."

Chinese tech giant ByteDance has committed to strengthening safeguards for its controversial AI video generation tool Seedance 2.0 following a barrage of cease-and-desist letters from major Hollywood studios and condemnation from industry guilds,

The 15-second fight was created using a new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, which is owned by ByteDance.

However, some AI critics rejected the notion that Seedance 2.0 is capable of replacing artists in the way that Reese warned. On Bluesky and X, they pushed back on ByteDance claims that this model doomed Hollywood, with some accusing outlets of too quickly ascribing Reese’s reaction to the whole industry.

The Hollywood backlash against Seedance 2.0 is growing. The Human Artistry Campaign, which counts the likes of SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America among its members, has joined the Motion Picture Association in condemning the AI model released by ByteDance,