An AI video showing actors Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting is shaking Hollywood.
On the 12th (local time), U.S. outlet Variety reported that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) strongly criticized Seedance 2.0, the latest AI video generator, saying that it produced an enormous amount of copyright infringement cases just one day after its release.
Earlier, ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese company that is TikTok's parent company, said this model had made a "significant leap in generation quality" compared with the previous version. Among the videos produced with the service, the one showing Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting on a rooftop spread rapidly on social media platforms and drew attention.
The 15-second video contained realistic action scenes and shocked viewers with lifelike quality as if it were a scene from a movie.
In a statement, the MPA said, "The Chinese AI service Seedance 2.0 used a large volume of U.S.-copyrighted material without authorization in just one day. By launching the service without substantive protections against infringement, ByteDance Ltd. is disregarding established copyright law that protects creators and underpins millions of American jobs. ByteDance Ltd. must stop the infringing activity immediately," it said.
Some experts reacted to the Seedance videos with resigned responses. Deadpool writer Rhett Reese said of the Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt fight video, "I don't want to say it, but it may be the end for us. Soon a person will sit at a computer and make a movie indistinguishable from what current Hollywood produces," he said self-mockingly.
The video was generated by Irish film and commercial producer Ruairi Robinson, who wrote on his social media, "This was made in Seedance 2 with only two lines of prompt," and said, "If the people who say 'Hollywood is dead' are right, maybe even those people saying it are finished."
After criticism of the video poured in, he also posted, "Today's question: should I die because I typed two lines and pressed one button?"
Online, various Seedance videos parodying 'Spider-Man,' 'Titanic,' 'Stranger Things,' 'The Lord of the Rings,' and 'Shrek' are spreading.
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