Seedance 2.0, the nightmare of the film industry, lands on TikTok

Recently, the Dreamina Seedance 2.0 video generator by Bytedance (TikTok) has been integrated into CapCut. Users can now generate videos, photos, or edit directly using AI on the video editing software. And since TikTok and CapCut are directly linked, Dreamina Seedance 2.0 is now making its debut on the Chinese video-sharing platform. 

Dreamina Seedance 2.0 impresses with photorealistic images

For now, Dreamina Seedance 2.0 is only available on TikTok through the Symphony Creative Studio app. It's a paid feature mainly used by professionals and advertisers. We don't yet know if it will be opened up to all TikTok users in the near future. Either way, the performance of this video generator is truly impressive. Users can turn a prompt into a video or animate a simple image. According to Bytedance, this AI can generate an advertisement in a few hours that would have previously taken several weeks of work. As we can see below, the videos generated by this AI are particularly impressive in terms of realism. 

Today we are rolling out Dreamina Seedance 2.0 in the U.S.

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As a reminder, this type of artificial intelligence is based on an astronomical amount of data, coming from movies, series, and works of all kinds, to generate images. In other words, the AI does not create anything in the strict sense: it merely recycles and mixes existing elements.

Hollywood fears the worst

Hollywood is starting to seriously worry about this type of technology. On the one hand, the AI steals from works protected by copyright. On the other hand, it can produce Hollywood-style sequences based on just a few requests, and all of this with a negligible budget.

In February last year, during the release of Seedance 2.0, Disney sent a cease and desist letter to Bytedance, accusing the Chinese company of providing its AI with a « pirated library » and of violating several of its intellectual property rights, including those of Star Wars and Marvel. Bytedance had then promised to implement measures to strengthen intellectual property protection on its technology and to avoid « unauthorized use of intellectual property and images by users ». On the other hand, Netflix also sent a cease and desist letter, labeling Seedance 2.0 as a « high-speed piracy engine, generating massive amounts of unauthorized derivative works using Netflix's iconic characters, universes, and storylines ». More generally, it is a large part of the film industry that condemns the piracy carried out by artificial intelligence. 

It now remains to be seen whether Dreamina Seedance 2.0 will soon be open to all TikTok users. The photorealistic images generated by AI have the potential to raise serious concerns regarding the spread of misinformation. It also remains to be seen whether TikTok users will not at some point express a rejection of AI. The Chinese platform has introduced a slider to limit the amount of AI-generated content in the « For You » tab. Moreover, content that appears "authentic" often performs best on the platform, and we now know the fateful demise of Sora's video generator.

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Source : TikTok