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 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.

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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.

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.

Disney and Paramount allege that Seedance 2.0 is distributing and reproducing their intellectual property.

Bytedance, the parent company of video streaming platform TikTok, was hit with a cease-and-desist letter from Disney over its new Seedance 2.0 generative AI

ByteDance, the Beijing-based owner of TikTok, is shifting strongly into artificial intelligence after years of legal and privacy scrutiny. Its chatbot Doubao, launched in 2023, has become China’s most popular AI assistant with over 100 million daily users,

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,