TikTok-owner ByteDance has promised to improve “safeguards” on its Seedance 2.0 AI model after a full-throated backlash from Hollywood about copyright theft. In a statement shared with BBC News, ByteDance said it would work to prevent users from generating videos based on Hollywood intellectual property.

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

An AI-generated video of Tom Cruise throwing down with Brad Pitt on a rooftop just lit up social media, and now the fallout is getting serious. What started as a viral clip is turning into a high-stakes battle over copyright,

ByteDance launches Seedance 2.0 AI video model, intensifying competition with OpenAI and expanding its multimodal AI strategy.

One screenwriter called it "terrifying."

The actors' union says the new model from Bytedance enables "blatant infringement" on properties like "Lord of the Rings."

SAG-AFTRA is joining the industry condemnation of ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, for releasing a new video model that has enabled widespread copyright infringement online. SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin is among those whose likeness has been used in videos generated by the model,

Seedance 2.0, a new AI video generation model from TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance, is drawing allegations of copyright infringement as it goes viral for creating realistic cinematic videos depicting Hollywood actors and characters.

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

Hollywood studios and industry groups are criticizing a new artificial intelligence video model, Seedance 2.0, accusing it of enabling widespread

Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in “blatant infringement” of its intellectual property with its Seedance video and Seedream image generative AI platforms, alleging the Chinese internet giant is illegally ripping off IP including “South Park,