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.

Amid a rising storm of angst over AI video, Disney fired off a cease and desist letter to China’s ByteDance for stocking its new Seedance 2.0 platform "with a pirated library of Disney’s copyrighted characters” as the platform treats Disney IP from Star Wars to Marvel to Family Guy as if it was "free public

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, had responded to legal threats from Disney after Seedance, their AI-generation tool has produced clips of Star Wars and other Disney properties.

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,

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has come under legal fire for allegedly allowing users of its platform to create videos featuring copyrighted characters. Disney and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) have accused ByteDance of using copyrighted work to train its AI,